2/11 "The real things of life go on, no matter who dies, just as though nothing had happened. Take the first Josiah Spencer and look down there what he left behind him. Why, you might even say that he was alive today! And see what Washington left behind him--and Fulton, who invented the steamboat--and Morse who invented the telegraph. So it's silly to say 'What's the use ?' Suppose Columbus had said it--or any of the others who have done great things in the world--" It slowly came to her then, her doubts still lingering, how many are called, how few are chosen. |