True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is arduous and rare. The absence of this digestive talent is what makes so cold and incredible the tales of so many people who say they have been “through” things; when it is evident that they have come out on the other side quite unchanged. We may ask those who profess to have passed through trivial or tragic experiences whether they have absorbed the content of them; whether they licked up suck living water as there was. It is a pertinent question in connection with many modern problems.