In this section of the lecture Jim Anderson shares the story of a nobleman named Victor who had to endure strenuous physical labor when he married a peasant girl and was banished from his parents' land. One of his sons Elmer also made heavy work his trademark. The same drive to survive lodged itself in Elmer's son Harold. Harold's second child inherited the worst of his workaholic tendencies. Jim Anderson shares this personal history of his ancestors because of the pattern it presents. Each generation had to discover on his own that life has an edge, a place of no return.