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To: Ilaine who wrote (44628)	7/9/1999 12:54:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Basically, yes. And less susceptible to social demands involving respectability.

To: Ilaine who wrote (44628)	7/9/1999 6:00:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Famous statement of Francis Bacon --"He who hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." In contrast, Tennyson thought that Ulysses wanted to abandon his wife, his sceptre and his isle and seek a newer land -- to sail beyond the baths of the western stars. Heroic questing minds must " Sail strange seas of thought -- alone" (Wordsworth on Newton -- as far as we know, Newton never even has a date). Fame is the spur -- the last impediment of noble mind (Milton). The desire for some kind of personal immortality, a permanent place in the memory of mankind drives people -- U.S. Grant, trying to finish his autobiograhy while dying of cancer -- Einstein working years without success on his unified field theory, Jesus dying on the cross, beyond despair. The only other thing that drives the great is the desire to preserve their spouse and children -- their hungry genes -- another kind of immortality.