Capitolo 76
butterfly, not a grub that goes out of our chrysalis.
Over that, I hold every prediction premature. We can guess and we am able
the hope, but we cannot have certainty. Safe only the certainty that no
element will survive to the revolution unchanged--not the faiths, neither classes,
neither national relationships, neither some other factor of component of our complex
civilisation. All are becoming plastic in the organic plasma; all are
characteristics loser in the mass common of the flux-pot. For that reason,
Not I ever act my head for a moment when people object to me that this,
what, or the other small point of detail in the utopia of Bellamy or William
The utopia of Maurice or my really little deprived Utopia and particular, it is
impossible, or unrealisable, or I win, or hateful. For these, later
all, are mere Utopias; their details are the consequence of individual
wishes; what they will emerge it has to be, not an Utopia to everybody, the Your or
excavations but a practical reality, full of turns and compromises more
unphilosophical and illogical--a practical reality disgusting in many
ways to all of us the Utopia-merchants. "The return Millennium of place" it is anybody
more to-day of realisable that yesterday. The greatest of revolutions are able
only produces that unsatisfactory result, a human and new organisation.
Anchor, is anything, after everything to believe at least that the wish of grub
emerges in a complete butterfly. Not, perhaps, completely as diamond in
the wings how we could desire; but a butterfly all the same, not a crawling
caterpillar.
XVII.
_ON IL CASINO TERRACE._
I have always considered completely Mountain Charles an Influence. It helps
holds so many young people men by the Stock exchange.
Allow me to protect against an obvious but unfair suspicion. These comments are
unissued under the exhilarating effect to win to the tables.
Entirely the contrary one. It is the Bank that has broken the man day
awry Charles. They is rather because of to punish and
the thought-irresistible influence of loss of persistent, not together