Some day perhaps humanity will succeed in ridding itself of the ghost of the past.

Let us hope that some day we shall emerge from this endless epoch of massacre and misery.

What else is there to do than to hope ?" The old man stopped at this.

The young man said: "To will." The other man made a gesture with his hand.
"There is one great general cause for the world's ulcer," the younger one kept on.

"You have said it--servility to the past, prejudice which prevents us from doing things differently, according to reason and morality.