Each man born into the world is born like Shelton in this book-to go a journey, and for the most part he is born on the high road. At first he sits there in the dust, with his little chubby hands reaching at nothing, and his little solemn eyes staring into space. As soon as he can toddle, he moves, by the queer instinct we call the love of life, straight along this road, looking neither to the right nor left, so pleased is he to walk. And he is charmed with everything-with the nice flat road, all broad and white, with his own feet, and with the prospect he can see on either hand.