from out these fastnesses dull winter’s laggard loiterings. The 
last faint glow is glinted on rough cedar rafters through the 
gable’s western oriel of parti-coloured panes and the lights blend 
softly into one fragrant atmosphere of rest. 
A short while later, I have dined once more in the inviting, 
sumptuous yet simple style peculiar to Eugenika. I am the first 
and sole arrival yet, out of the many who are due, and thus the 
banquet was in miniature and the guests were few who discussed 
the dainties of scientific choice prepared by a master of the 
culinary art. The conversation, led by my genial host, ranged 
pleasantly twixt grave and gay, recalling many a pleasantry of 
former times, mingled with scientific incidents and forecasts of 
the serious work to come. 
And suddenly the consciousness of opportunity assailed me— 
the thought that now, in the lone leisured comfort of this after- 
dinner time, the psychological moment had arrived to importune 
the Master for some brief personal epitome to suit the purpose 
of my diary,—some statement of the aims and ambitions that 
have led and dominated the labours of his life of scientific energy, 
his activities in the present and the past. 
The task was one to be approached with all the diffidence at 
my command. But readily the Master responded to the call,— 
for no legitimate appeal for knowledge is made to him in vain, 
—and with brief pause for thought he thereupon defined for me 
in brief,the trend of his mind’s great industry. 
Relapsed into a pensive pose of contemplative power and 
with a look of exaltation in his eyes, the Master’s accents fell 
in softer strain: 
“The words of a great thinker may best convey the spirit of 
my life’s objective, which many term a dream Utopian;—a thing 
so simple yet so strenuous,—no fable yet so far. No more a 
dream—no less,—than man is the rightful fulness of his being, 
in perfect form regenerate, or, in a word, Salvation of the race. 
“Robert Ingersoll says: 
“‘Reason, Observation and Experience—the Holy Trinity of 
Science—have taught us that happiness is the only good ; that 
the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make 
others so. This is enough for us* 
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