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Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian |
brutes of the Jurassic times. He may even now--if I may use the |
phrase--be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral |
reef, or beside the lonely saline lakes of the Triassic Age. Or did |
he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still |
men, but with the riddles of our own time answered and its wearisome |
problems solved? Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own |
part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, |
fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man's culminating |
time! I say, for my own part. He, I know--for the question had been |
discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made--thought |
but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the |
growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must |
inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that |
is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so. But to me |
the future is still black and blank--is a vast ignorance, lit at a |
few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for |
my comfort, two strange white flowers--shrivelled now, and brown and |
flat and brittle--to witness that even when mind and strength had |
gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart |
of man. |
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