Or, like an animal
chewing the cud; for some time there are small eructations,
re-mastications, and then everything is ejected through the gullet,
after going through the circle."
"Do you believe in the return of the Golden Age?"
"Yes I believe like Thomas, when I have seen. And I have seen. At
the moment, which I now recall, on the Champs du Mars,--then I saw!
We had a forefeeling of the future, we were sure that we had had a
vision of some new order of things, but were uncertain when it would
be established."
"How long are we to wait?"
"We should not sit still and wait, but work! That makes the time
pass. The learned say that it took a million years for the Hill of
Montmartre to be deposited from the water. Now history is only three
thousand years old; for three thousand years more, men can reflect
over their past, and perhaps in six thousand an improvement may be
noticeable! We are too proud and impatient, sire. And yet things
move quickly. America was discovered only three hundred years ago,
and now it is an European republic. Africa, India, China, Japan
are opened, and soon the whole world will belong to Europe. Do you
see the promise to Abraham, 'In thy seed shall all the nations of
the earth be blessed,' is on the way to fulfilment--on the way, I
say.
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