"He is more alive himself.

He has begun to be of importance.

And men like him have been killed already--though the young ones go first." "The young ones know that, and they clutch the most frantically.

That is what I am seeing in young eyes everywhere.

Mere instinct makes it so--mere uncontrollable instinct which takes the form of a sort of desperateness at facing the thousand chances of death before they have lived.