Whether you or I make that choice
and whether you or I succeed in realizing ourselves, though a great
matter to ourselves, is, I admit, a small matter to the world. But
the great matter is this, that THE CHOICE IS BEING MADE, that it
will continue to be made, and that all around us, so that it can
never be arrested and darkened again, is the dawn of human
possibility. . . ."
(White could also see his dead friend's face with its enthusiastic
paleness, its disordered hair and the glowing darknesses in the
eyes. On such occasions Benham always had an expression of ESCAPE.
Temporary escape. And thus would his hand have clutched the
reading-desk; thus would his long fingers have rustled these dry
papers.)
"Man has reached a point when a new life opens before him. . . .
"The old habitual life of man is breaking up all about us, and for
the new life our minds, our imaginations, our habits and customs are
all unprepared. . . .
"It is only now, after some years of study and living, that I begin
to realize what this tremendous beginning we call Science means to
mankind.
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