But the bare pillared top of Simeon in midnight's blackest waste
Were populous, matched 'gainst the isolation drear and deep.
Of him who pines among the sons of men at once a great thought's king
and prisoner."

Thus we see that even living alone a man would not be
altogether a stranger to the conception of duty. But it must
be confessed that the content of that duty would be meager.
Man, a social being, will owe, even to himself, duties which
man, a hermit, a solitary animal, could never know. Does his
social environment render possible to him a new development?
May he now in any respect become a larger man than before?
If so there is a duty to himself to become that kind of a man.
