They haven't flinched, they have remained Positivists, or Evolutionists, or Determinists, and have set their faith in observation and experiment to help on the final conquest of the world." Francois himself was growing excited, as he thus confessed his faith while strolling along the quiet sunlit garden paths.

"The young indeed!" he resumed.

"Do people know them?
It makes us laugh when we see all sorts of apostles fighting for us, trying to attract us, and saying that we are white or black or grey, according to the hue which they require for the triumph of their particular ideas! The young, the real ones, why, they're in the schools, the laboratories and the libraries.

It's they who work and who'll bring to-morrow to the world.

It's not the young fellows of dinner and supper clubs, manifestoes and all sorts of extravagances.