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t 230 THE STORY OF THE MOUNTAINS

Even now we suspect ourselves of possessing wing: like faculties of the mind whose use we do not know, and to which we are as yet afraid to trust. But the period of our infancy is over. ‘The time to let ourselves go is approaching. Should we not look confidently out into the future and nerve our- selves for bold, unfettered flight ?