Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2020

Quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes used as the third text on a Christmas card (see Items 2018, 2019)

1961?

 

Original is missing.

 

 

”I think it probable that Civilization somehow will last as long as I care to look ahead — perhaps with smaller numbers, but perhaps also to greatness and splendor by science. I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it has never seen but is to be_; that man may have cosmic destinies he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impov­erished earth I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace.”

— Justice Oliver W. Holmes

 

 

 

 

 

 

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