"It is true that when, perchance, this argument is placed before them, they do not fail to reply by invoking the shame of desertion.
"'Well, is not then the interest of the struggle to which we are subjected a sufficient attraction to keep us at our post?'"
And, always enamored with the doctrine, which we are now assiduously maintaining, he concludes:
"Common sense is, at times, the unfolding of a magnificent force which incites us to attune our environment to actualities.
"One must not, however, fall into excess and draw a huge sword to pierce the clouds, which obscure the sun.
"If struggle is praiseworthy when we have to face a real enemy, it becomes worthy of scorn and laughter if we attack a puerile or imaginary adversary.
"But the number of people incapable of appreciating the true color of things is not limited to those who enshroud them in black.
"There are others, on the contrary, who obstinately insist upon surrounding them with a halo of sunlight only existing in their imagination.
"For such deluded people, obstacles seen from a distance take on the most attractive appearance; they would be readily disposed to enjoy them and only consent to allow them a certain importance if they absolutely obstruct the way.
"But until the moment when impossibility confronts them, do they deny its existence or underrate its importance by attributing a favorable influence to it.