60/88 Yet, nothwithstanding, they had brought forth the greatest individual heroes, the most astonishing collective movements of history. To dream!" a mysterious voice kept chanting in his brain. "To have an ideal!..." He did not fancy living, like the mummies of the great Pharaohs, in a luxurious tomb, anointed with perfume and surrounded with everything necessary for nourishment and sleep. To be born, to grow up, to reproduce oneself was not enough to form a history:--all the animals do the same. Man ought to add something more which he alone possesses,--the faculty of framing a future.... |