Events were tending, in the prescribed manner, towards that end which Manuus the enchanter had once defined as “desirable, perhaps, but appallingly dull.” The day would break when all things would have but one nature, and time would have a stop, for the last vestige of the chaos existing in eternity would have been eliminated. To make way for a new beginning? Possibly. If not, then—in the very strictest sense—no matter, never mind …
