I have had one or two friends whom
the world has never known and never will know, who have more in them
than is to be found in many an English classic. I could take you to
a little dissenting chapel not very far from Holborn where you would
hear a young Welshman, with no education beyond that provided by a
Welsh denominational college, who is a perfect orator and whose depth
of insight is hardly to be matched, save by Thomas A Kempis, whom he
much resembles. When he dies he will be forgotten in a dozen years.
Besides, it is surely plain enough to everybody that there are
thousands of men and women within a mile of us, apathetic and
obscure, who, if, an object worthy of them had been presented to
them, would have shown themselves capable of enthusiasm and heroism.
Huge volumes of human energy are apparently annihilated.'
'It is very shocking, worse to me than the thought of the earthquake
or the pestilence.'
'I said "yes and no" and there is another side. The universe is so
wonderful, so intricate, that it is impossible to trace the
transformation of its forces, and when they seem to disappear the
disappearance may be an illusion. Moreover, "waste" is a word which
is applicable only to finite resources. If the resources are
infinite it has no meaning.'
Two customers came in and Baruch was obliged to leave. When he came
to reflect, he was surprised to find not only how much he had said,
but what he had said.
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