And so men do by themselves. The result of to-day, which haunts the mind and cannot be escaped, will presently be abridged into a word, and the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization. In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave all thy creed, all the creeds, all the literatures, of the nations, and marshal thee to a heaven which no epic dream has yet depicted. Every man is not so much a workman in the world, as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
Every several result is threatened and judged by that which follows.
The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism. Fear not the new generalization. There are no fixtures to men, if we appeal to consciousness. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility. Our moods do not believe in each other.