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I could feel Marius's frustration I could feel the passion that made him clench his fist now and search his soul for the proper words

"There's so you cannot s

ee," he said finally "There is so that you fail to understand "

"No,with my vision There never was It is you who fail to see You always have "

"Look out there at the forest!" he said, gesturing to the glass walls around us, "Pick one tree; describe it, if you will, in terms of what it destroys, what it defies, and what it does not accoreedy roots and irresistible ht of other plants, their nutrients, their air But that is not the truth of the tree That is not the whole truth when the thing is seen as part of nature, and by nature Isacred, I er thing which embraces all "

"And so you will select now your causes for optimism," she said, "as you always have Come now Exaiven platters of er is no h of that pap already-the idiot foolishness upon which the complacency of the rich has always been based The world is sunk into depravity and chaos; it is as it alas or worse "

"Oh, no, not so," he said ada animals If you do not see what they have learned, you're blind They are creatures ever changing, ever i their vision and the capacity of their hearts You are not fair to them when you speak of this as the ht that shines everthe evolution of the human soul!"

He rose from his place at the table, and came round towards her on the left-hand side He took the empty chair between her and Gabrielle And then he reached out and he lifted her hand

I was frightened watching hihtened she wouldn't allow hiesture; she only smiled

"True, what you say about war," he said, pleading with her, and struggling with his dignity at the sa, I too have heard theh all the decades; and even now, the world is shocked by daily reports of arainst these horrors which is the light I speak of; it's the attitudes which were never possible in the past It is the intolerance of thinking men and women in poho for the first time in the history of the human race truly want to put an end to injustice in all forms "

"You speak of the intellectual attitudes of a few "

"No," he said "I speak of changing philosophy; I speak of idealism from which true realities will be born Akasha,, flawed, as they are, they must have the time to perfect their own dreams, don't you see?"

"Yes!" It was Louis who spoke out

My heart sank So vulnerable! Were she to turn her anger on hi on:

"It's their world, not ours," he said humbly "Surely we forfeited it e lost our le If we do we rob them of victories that have cost theress has been ht were inevitable; they have for the first time developed a concept of the true family of man "