No--I think human nature alone is to blame--if blame there be.

Human nature is tired." "Tired ?" echoed Rivardi--"In what way ?" "In every way!"-- and a lovely light of tenderest pity filled her eyes as she spoke--"Tired of the same old round of working, mating, breeding and dying--for no results really worth having! Civilisation after civilisation has arisen--always with strife and difficulty, only to pass away, leaving, in many cases, scarce a memory.

Human nature begins to weary of the continuous 'grind'-- it demands the 'why' of its ceaseless labour.

Latterly, poor striving men and women have been deprived of faith--they used to believe they had a loving Father in Heaven who cared for them,--but the monkeys of the race, the atheists, swinging from point to point of argument and chattering all the time, have persuaded them that they are as Tennyson once mournfully wrote--" "Poor orphans of nothing--alone on that lonely shore, Born of the brainless Nature who knew not that which she bore!" "Can we wonder then that they are tired ?--tired of pursuing a useless quest?
Human nature is craving for a change--for a newer world--a newer race,--and those who see that Nature is NOT 'brainless' but full of intelligent conception, are sure that the change will come!" "And you are one of 'those who see'?
--" said Rivardi, incredulously.
"I do not say I am,--that would be too much self-assertion"-- she answered--"But I hope I am! I long to see the world endowed more richly with health and happiness.

See how gloriously the sun has risen! In what splendour of light and air we are sailing! If we can do as much as this we ought to be able to do more!" "We shall do more in time"-- he said--"The advance of one step leads to another." "In time!" echoed Morgana--"What time the human race has already taken to find out the simplest forces of nature! It is the horrible bulk of blank stupidity that hinders knowledge--the heavy obstinate bulk that declines to budge an inch out of its own fixity.