social, and industrial order in which it must find its place and task
is the measure of its possible painfulness.
His pain has its roots in his ignorance of his own powers and of the world.
He strives again and again to put himself in touch with organised work;
he takes up one task after another in a fruitless endeavour to succeed.
He does not know what he is fitted to do,
and he turns helplessly from one form of work for which he has no faculty
to another for which he has less.
His friends begin to think of him as a neer-do-well;
and, more pathetic still, the shadow of failure begins to darken his own spirit.
And yet it may be that in this halting, stumbling, ineffective human soul,
vainly striving to put its hand to its task,
there is some rare gift, some splendid talent,
waiting for the ripe hour and the real opportunity!
In such a crisis sympathetic comprehension is invaluable,
but it is rarely given,
and the youth works out his problem in isolation.
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