Are you of the breed?

From the Sackett novel, The Warrior's Path, by Louis L'Amour (circa 1620's) (chapter 18)


" ------------  'It is a good thing to live, to walk out upon such a (ship's) deck as this and feel the wind, to walk in the forest on a moonlit night or out upon some great plateau and look westward ----------- '


'You, too?'


'What do you mean?'


'Ah, you are your father's son!  He looked to the westward, too!  To his far blue mountains.  But was it the mountains?  Or was it that something beyond?  We need such men, lad, men who can look to the beyond, to ever strive for something out there beyond the stars.  It is man's destiny, I think, to go forward, ever forward.  We are of the breed, you and I, the breed who venture always toward what lies out there -- westward, onward, everward.'


We were silent then, riding the deck as it tipped and slanted.  She was a good ship, even as she had been in my father's time, and she bore a good name."