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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
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Yet
to
rail
against
it
is
as
idle
as
to
quarrel
with
any
other
force
of
nature.
For
myself,
I
can
hold
apart,
and
see
as
little
as
possible
of
the
thing
I
deem
accursed.
But
I
think
of
some
who
are
dear
to
me,
whose
life
will
be
lived
in
the
hard
and
fierce
new
age.
The
roaring
"Jubilee"
of
last
summer
was
for
me
an
occasion
of
sadness;
it
meant
that
so
much
was
over
and
gone--so
much
of
good
and
noble,
the
like
of
which
the
world
will
not
see
again,
and
that
a
new
time
of
which
only
the
perils
are
clearly
visible,
is
rushing
upon
us.
Oh,
the
generous
hopes
and
aspirations
of
forty
years
ago!
Science,
then,
was
seen
as
the
deliverer;
only
a
few
could
prophesy
its
tyranny,
could
foresee
that
it
would
revive
old
evils
and
trample
on
the
promises
of
its
beginning.
This
is
the
course
of
things;
we
must
accept
it.
But
it
is
some
comfort
to
me
that
I--poor
little
mortal--have
had
no
part
in
bringing
the
tyrant
to
his
throne.
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