How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

The past is but the past of a beginning.