What do you wish for?
What is it that you desire so that things might be settled?
Tell us your secret quickly and let us go, for the cold is very sharp." [Footnote 1: Man of God.] And he laughed again, looking at Gabriel with paternal pity as though he were a child.
"My remedy!" exclaimed Gabriel, taking no notice of the priest's gesture.

"I have no remedy whatever, it is the progress of humanity that alone offers one.

All the nations on earth have passed through the same evolutions; first of all they were ruled by the sword, then by faith, and now by science.

We ourselves have been ruled by warriors and priests, but now we tarry at the gate of modern life, without the strength or wish to take science by the hand, who is the only guide we could have, hence our sad situation.

Science is nowadays in everything--in agriculture, in all manufactures, in arts and crafts, in the culture and well-being of the people; it is even in war.