Show and dlease Dle ae the final question of nil mature pessimism Is life worth li in itself the proof of a diseased mind the healthy mind never acks it indeed we have not penetrated very deeply letb ahe tor pessimism if wo have not discovered tacit in its intense form it is invariably accod by health or bodily weakness or abnormal sensitiveness to physical in fluentes fluen ces of leopardi we read in tho pages of hia latest biographer that he was wont to turn night into day and day into night he breakfasted between 3 and 5 tu the afternoon and dined about midnight tho mere lamca of wind cold and snow were enough to pale him lie could not bear fire and formerly used to pass the winters three part submerged in a sack of feathers ading n and writing thus the greater part of the day of such unhealthy habits and of the constant physical misery alich ensued partly from them and partly from other cause tho dialogues are in no sense a surprising result and is only one a the great and decrepit army of aca ei mists contemporary |