The good news is I read over 40 pages of OHB today . . . during daylight hours . . . while the children were playing. The bad news is there is still a lot to read on this one. Because it is an old book with great thin pages, I continue to forget that it is 760 pages long. That's no brief jaunt. I loved this moment where Philip struggles with some greater truths. It's like he grew up today:
He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightning on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range. He seemed to see that a man need not leave his life to chance, but that his will was powerful; he seemed to see that self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion; he seemed to see that the inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands. (545)
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