原文：
It seems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gusto and despatch, stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us. And it would seem also, on a hasty view, that the attainment of as much as possible was the one goal of man’s contentious life. And yet, as regards the spirit, this is but a semblance.

參考譯文：
在這充滿聯(lián)姻婚嫁、決戰(zhàn)廝殺的世界里，每天特定時刻，我們都欣然而又迅速地把一份食物一去不返地吞入包裹我們的皮囊。這個世界看上去似乎有很多東西都是可以得到的。猛然看來，盡可能地獲取也成為紛繁人生的唯一目標。然而，對于精神世界來說，這只不過是表面現(xiàn)象。