THE NEW REPUBLIC
regard the question of immortality altogether. So, to a greater degree, will the kinetic men of the coming time. We may find that issue interesting enough when we turn over the leaf, but at present we have not turned over the leaf. On this side, in this life, the relevancy of things points not in the slightest towards the immortality of our egotisms, but convergently and overpoweringly to the future of our race, to that spacious future of which these weak, ambitious "Anticipations" are, as it were, the dim reflection seen in a shallow and troubled pool.
For that future these men will live and die.
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