God cements mankind into society for their greater good, while each, consenting to submit his exercise of the several powers with which he is vested to
the cognizance of the whole body, agrees to deny himself such gratifications as are deemed incompatible with the felicity of the rest....
In that moment when Jimmy Stewart, standing there holding Juju and her petals, smiles that magnificent
whole body smile
of his and somehow manages across seven decades to communicate to us on a level so deep that the first recognition comes not in cerebral
cognizance, but through the base reactions
of our own bodies — as our eyes well up and our cheeks flush and our hearts grow; in that moment we know — to our marrow — that life really is wonderful.