It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice