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side or the extremists on the other will it, or not, this blend of the 

 old and the new will come to pass, for while mankind, disillusioned 

 by bitter experience, must turn to the future for new hope and for 

 new courage, it will remember and cherish the lore, the wisdom and 

 poetry of the childhood of the race, but it must, and inflexibly will, 

 develop and expand its knowledge of the world of nature and the 

 physical world, and, if driven to it by necessity, sacrifice the past 

 to that end. 



Even in that event it will not suffer, for there is in the mind 

 of man the unquenchable desire for the beautiful, born of the unseen, 

 which the new knowledge will render keener as the centuries pass. 

 In the future, then, with all its burden of fate, 

 — how oft shall morn's pellucid ray 



Stir the high heart on the unknown wondrous way ! 



How oft shall evening's slant and crimson fire 



Inmix the earthly and divine desire! 



What yearning falls from twilight's shadowy dome 



For the unchanged City and the abiding Home! 



