We have been made an exception
of--and got our rations. The big thing confronts us still. It is vast,
I agree, but vast as it is it is the thing we have to think about. I
do not know why it should be so, but I am compelled by something in my
nature to want to serve this idea of a new age for mankind. I want it
as my culminating want. I want a world in order, a disciplined mankind
going on to greater things. Don't you?"
"Now you tell me of it," she said with a smile, "I do."
"But before--?"
"No. You've made it clear. It wasn't clear before."
"I've been talking of this sort of thing with my friend Dr. Martineau.
And I've been thinking as well as talking. That perhaps is why I'm so
clear and positive."
"I don't complain that you are clear and positive. I've been coming
along the same way.... It's refreshing to meet you."
"I found it refreshing to meet Martineau." A twinge of conscience about
Dr. Martineau turned Sir Richmond into a new channel. "He's a most
interesting man," he said. "Rather shy in some respects. Devoted to his
work. And he's writing a book which has saturated him in these ideas.
Only two nights ago we stood here and talked about it. The Psychology of
a New Age. The world, he believes, is entering upon a new phase in its
history, the adolescence, so to speak, of mankind.
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