In the story, the body of a drowning man turns up in a remote town by the sea. When the townspeople try to discover his identity and prepare to bury his body, they find that he is taller, stronger, and more handsome than any man they have ever met. At the end of the story, his presence influences them to make people and their own lives better than they ever imagined. I think Professor Conway chose it as something motivational since as the story tries to explain, a person has the great power to change others and give them extra inspiration. When the people of the town saw the body, at first they came to think that something so perfect, something so magnificent could not be real and they related it as something mythical, they realize that such magnificence can exist in the real world, the body drowned is proof of that. And, therefore, they aspire to that greatness themselves, and, at the same time, remain in reality.
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