Comment on “The Virtues of a Higher Cause”

By the way. One more comment I've been meaning to make.
I've become an obsessive poetry fan and occasional poet over the last threeish years. Browning and Hopkins are my favorites.

There's a portion in Browning's Cleon that reminds me of you every time I revisit it.

Thou, in the daily building of thy tower,—
Whether in fierce and sudden spasms of toil,
Or through dim lulls of unapparent growth,
Or when the general work 'mid good acclaim
Climbed with the eye to cheer the architect,—
Didst ne'er engage in work for mere work's sake—
Hadst ever in thy heart the luring hope
Of some eventual rest a-top of it,
Whence, all the tumult of the building hushed,
Thou first of men might'st look out to the East:
The vulgar saw thy tower, thou sawest the sun.