Speaking for the others, Bourne wrote, “If your ideal is to be adjustment to your situation, in radiant co-operation with reality, then your success is likely to be just that and no more. You never transcend anything. You grow, but your spirit never jumps out of your skin to go on wild adventures.” It was precisely this “thirst for more of the intellectual ‘war and laughter’ that we find Nietzsche calling us to [that] may bring us satisfactions that optimism-haunted philosophies could never bring.”
