"Not to-morrow," I said, "not to-morrow.

Let us go now." II Now go we in content To liberty and not to banishment.
I have sometimes entertained myself by trying to imagine the impressions which our modern life would make upon some sensitive mind of a remote age.

I have fancied myself rambling about New York with Montaigne, and taking note of his shrewd, satirical comment.

I can hardly imagine him expressing any feeling of surprise, much less any sentiment of admiration; but I am confident that under a masque of ironical self-complacency the old Gascon would find it difficult to repress his astonishment, and still more difficult to adjust his mind to evident and impressive changes.

I have ventured at times to imagine myself in the company of another more remote and finely organised spirit of the past, and pictured to myself the keen, dispassionate criticism of Pericles on the things of modern habit and creation; I have listened to his luminous interpretations of the changed conditions which he saw about him; I have noted his unconcern toward the merely material advances of society, his penetrative insight into its intellectual and moral developments.