Man, he asserts, will have no old age.

He will be always equally capable, of achieving the successes of his youth; and he will become more and more expert in the things which become the age of virility.

Or "to drop metaphor, men will never degenerate." In ages to come we may be regarded--say in America--with the same excess of admiration with which we regard the ancients.

We might push the prediction further.

In still later ages the interval of time which divides us from the Greeks and Romans will appear so relatively small to posterity that they will classify us and the ancients as virtually contemporary; just in the same way as we group together the Greeks and Romans, though the Romans in their own day were moderns in relation to the Greeks.