This little figure, this minute little figure, launched the Food of the Gods upon the world! One does not know which is the most amazing, the greatness or the littleness of these scientific and philosophical men.
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Context: The narrator takes leave of Mr. Bensington, retired to a spa town.
Source: Book I, Chapter 5
For greatness is abroad, not only in us, not only in the Food, but in the purpose of all things! It is in the nature of all things; it is part of space and time. To grow and still to grow: from first…
We fight not for ourselves but for growth — growth that goes on for ever. To-morrow, whether we live or die, growth will conquer through us. That is the law of the spirit for ever more. To grow…
Tremendous growths will obscure and hide our houses, smother our churches, smash and destroy all the order of our cities, and we shall become no more than a feeble vermin under the heels of the new…
Of course we are. Obviously. Each man for his own time. … We do our job and go. See? That is what death is for. We work out all our little brains and all our little emotions, and then this lot begins…
What right have parents to say, My child shall have no light but the light I have had, shall grow no greater than the greatness to which I have grown?
In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are…