The second was—Sensitiveness to pressure. He always tried to lessen this last, in the first place, by raising his own level; in the second, by criticising what was above him, in order to observe that it was not so high after all, nor so much worth striving after.
So he stepped out into life—in order to develop himself, and still ever to remain as he was!
[1] A krona is worth about twenty-seven cents.