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ESSAYS IN MODERNITY
'Oh no!' he cried ; 'I don't falter; I don't repent—I, with the narrow ideals and the bewildered vision of a desperate hope and a despairing faith. Onward, onward, and upward! Who am I? What am I? What does it matter? The idea is the greatest of our time—the hope the most superb, the faith the most intense. That is enough for me.'
Then suddenly:
'Look!' he said, stretching out his hand, his eyes lit, his mouth smiling.
At one steady impulse the sun had surged above the clear horizon line, and soared, huge, round, blazing, and glorious, into the thrilling blue of the heavens.
They stood together in silence, regarding his splendour.
