Why say more ?" Catherine made no reply; but in her very attitude of trust and confidence, Gabriel knew he read the comfort he had given her.
Silence, a while.

At last she spoke.
"Visions!" she whispered.

"Wonderful visions of the glad, new time! How do you see them, Gabriel ?" "How do I see them ?" His face seemed to glow with inspiration under the shining light in the far heavens.

"I see them as the realization of a time, now really close at hand, when this old world of ours shall be, as it never yet has been, in truth civilized, emancipated, free.

When the night of ignorance, kingcraft, priestcraft, servility and prejudice, bigotry and superstition shall be forever swept away by the dawn of intelligence and universal education, by scientific truth and light--by understanding and by fearlessness.
"When Science shall no longer be 'the mystery of a class,' but shall become the heritage of all mankind.