The nations may well sit by and watch the struggle, for humanity has a stake in it.

I say this, whose life has borne witness, whose heart is heavy with revelations it has not made.

And I speak for thousands; oh, for thousands! My gray hairs are too few for me to let these pages trespass the limit I have set myself.

That part of my life which contains the climax of my personal drama I must leave to my grandchildren to record.

My father might speak and tell how, in time, he discovered that in his first violent rejection of everything old and established he cast from him much that he afterwards missed.