Mystery of golf, etc
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NECESSARIANISM
his
utmost,
poor
soul,
to
make
matter
(or
mind)
transcend
its
own
powers,
a
type
and
symbol
of
mankind;
of
mankind
warring
with
its
environment,
striving
to
overcome
its
limitations,
reaching
up
to
some
unknown
ideal,
pressing
towards
some
inscrutable
goal.
—What
potentialities
may
not
lurk
in
Man!
If
Amceba
has
developed
into
Man,
into
what
may
not
Man
develope
!
Some
day
we
shall
get
some
arch-angelical
record
rounds.—I
wonder
what
Par
Golf
on
the
New
Jerusalem
links
will
be!
--But
these
be
transcendental
themes.
One
more
speculative
point,
and
we
will
drop
metaphysics.—The
golfer,
strive
as
he
may,
is
the
slave
of
himself.
Perhaps
nothing
is
borne
in
upon
the
golfer
more
strongly
after
months
of
practice
than
that
his
place
on
the
Club
Handicap
is
determined
by
this
his
slav-
ery
to
himself.
There
is
not
a
golfer
living
but
would
say,
"If
I
could,
I
would."
The
links
prove
the
fatal
and
irrefragable
chain
of
cause
83
Tlae
golfer,
an
epitome
of
man,
his
kinde;
I
And
eke
a
slave
unto
himselfe.
his
utmost,
poor
soul,
to
make
matter
(or
mind)
transcend
its
own
powers,
a
type
and
symbol
of
mankind;
of
mankind
warring
with
its
environment,
striving
to
overcome
its
limitations,
reaching
up
to
some
unknown
ideal,
pressing
towards
some
inscrutable
goal.
—What
potentialities
may
not
lurk
in
Man!
If
Amceba
has
developed
into
Man,
into
what
may
not
Man
develope
!
Some
day
we
shall
get
some
arch-angelical
record
rounds.—I
wonder
what
Par
Golf
on
the
New
Jerusalem
links
will
be!
--But
these
be
transcendental
themes.
One
more
speculative
point,
and
we
will
drop
metaphysics.—The
golfer,
strive
as
he
may,
is
the
slave
of
himself.
Perhaps
nothing
is
borne
in
upon
the
golfer
more
strongly
after
months
of
practice
than
that
his
place
on
the
Club
Handicap
is
determined
by
this
his
slav-
ery
to
himself.
There
is
not
a
golfer
living
but
would
say,
"If
I
could,
I
would."
The
links
prove
the
fatal
and
irrefragable
chain
of
cause
83
Tlae
golfer,
an
epitome
of
man,
his
kinde;
I
And
eke
a
slave
unto
himselfe.
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