In some faculties of mind he has been, and is, only a child; but he is growing, and some things that were childish at the first are now of man’s stature. He is experimenting, and doing it well; and if it had not been that we have crossed his path he would be yet⁠—he may be yet if we fail⁠—the father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead through Death, not Life.”