Read Books Online, for Free |
4. At Maidenhead | H. G. [Herbert George] Wells | |
Section 7 |
Page 3 of 8 |
Sir Richmond noted how the doctor's chair creaked as he rolled to and fro with the uneasiness of these intimate utterances. "I agree," said Sir Richmond presently. "One DOES think in this fashion. Something in this fashion. What one calls one's work does belong to something much bigger than ourselves. "Something much bigger," he expanded. "Which something we become," the doctor urged, "in so far as our work takes hold of us." Sir Richmond made no answer to this for a little while. "Of course we trail a certain egotism into our work," he said. "Could we do otherwise? But it has ceased to be purely egotism. It is no longer, 'I am I' but 'I am part.'. . . One wants to be an honourable part." "You think of man upon his planet," the doctor pursued. "I think of life rather as a mind that tries itself over in millions and millions of trials. But it works out to the same thing." "I think in terms of fuel," said Sir Richmond. He was still debating the doctor's generalization. "I suppose it would be true to say that I think of myself as mankind on his planet, with very considerable possibilities and with only a limited amount of fuel at his disposal to achieve them. Yes. . . . I agree that I think in that way. . . . I have not thought much before of the way in which I think about things--but I agree that it is in that way. Whatever enterprises mankind attempts are limited by the sum total of that store of fuel upon the planet. That is very much in my mind. Besides that he has nothing but his annual allowance of energy from the sun." |
Who's On Your Reading List? Read Classic Books Online for Free at Page by Page Books.TM |
The Secret Places of the Heart H. G. [Herbert George] Wells |
Home | More Books | About Us | Copyright 2004