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“Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.”

“…a rigorous punishment of human selfishness. Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.”

“…the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the difference of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force”

“Can a cube that does not last at any time at all, have a real existence? … any real body must have extension in /four/ directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness— and Duration.”