THOSE THAT TRAVEL FOR PLEASURE.—Like animals, stupid and perspiring, they climb mountains: people forgot to tell them that there were fine views on the way. 203. TOO MUCH AND TOO LITTLE.—Men nowadays live too much and think too little. They have hunger and dyspepsia together, and become thinner and thinner, however much they eat. He who now says “Nothing has happened to me” is a blockhead. 204. END AND GOAL.—Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached its end, it has also not reached its goal. A parable. 205. NEUTRALITY OF NATURE ON A GRAND SCALE.—The neutrality of Nature on a grand scale (in mountain, sea, forest, and desert) is pleasing, but only for a brief space. Afterwards we become impatient. “Have they all nothing to say to _us_? Do _we_ not exist so far as they are concerned?” There arises a feeling that a _lèse-majesté_ is committed against humanity. 206. FORGETTING OUR PURPOSE.—In a journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as means to an end, but is continued as the ultimate end. Forgetting our purpose is the most frequent form of folly. 207. SOLAR ORBIT OF AN IDEA.—When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul’s temperature is usually very low. Gradually the idea develops in warmth, and is hottest (that is to say, exerts its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already on the wane. 208. HOW TO HAVE EVERY MAN AGAINST YOU.—If some one now dared to say, “He that is not for me is against me,” he would at once have all against him.—This sentiment does credit to our era. 209.