392 • THE DISCOVERY OE THE FFTTTRE. 



marching order. We liave struck our camp forever and we are out 

 upon the roads. 



We are in the beginning- of the greatest change that humanity has 

 ever undergone. There is no shock, no epoch-making incident — but 

 then there is no shock at a cloudy daybreak. At no point can we sa3% 

 Here it commences, now; hist minute Avas night and this is mornino-. 

 But insensibly we are in the day. If we care to look, we can foresee 

 growing knowledge, growing order, and presently a deliberate improve- 

 ment of the blood and character of the race. And what we can see 

 and imagine gives us a measure and gives us faith for what surpasses 

 the imagination. 



Jt is possible to Ixdieve that all the past is ])ut the l)eginning of a 

 beginning, and that all that is and has been is })ut the twilight of the 

 dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever 

 accomplished is l)ut the dream l)efore the awakening. We can not see, 

 there is no need for us to see, what this world will be like when the 

 day has fully come. We are creatures of the twilight. But it is out 

 of our race and lineage that minds will spring, that will reach back to 

 us in our littleness to know us l)etter than we know ourselves, and 

 that will reach forward fearlessl}' to comprehend this future that 

 defeats our eyes. All this world is heavy with the promise of greater 

 things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of 

 days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and 

 hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a 

 footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. 



