The world which enfolds the new man from his birth does not compel him to limit himself in any fashion; it sets up no veto against him; on the contrary, it incites his appetite, which in principle can increase endlessly. Now it turns out —and this is most important— that this world of the 19th and early 20th Centuries not only has the perfections and the completeness which it actually possesses, but furthermore suggests to those who dwell in it the radical assurance that tomorrow it will be still richer, ampler, more perfect, as if it enjoyed a spontaneous, inexhaustible power of increase.
