Man’s Discontentment “It is worth a little time and thought to ask why it is that outward things do not bring satisfaction to the human heart.  If man were nothing more than the developed ‘animal’ that he is reckoned popularly to be, he ought to be perfectly happy in a society where good things are available in plenty.  A cow in clover is perfectly content.  Why then should mankind not be equally content in a world of eating and drinking, playing and dancing?  Why, when man has a paradise of sports, fashions and entertainments on his doorstep, is he still worried and unhappy?  Why is he puzzled, angry and afraid if he has ready to his hand everything that his eye and his appetite could ask for?  Man is a strange being to be sure.”     -- Maurice Roberts (1574-1656)