All the achievements, beliefs and hopes of man are parts of gigantic historical movements as closely bound to the natural world, as inevitable in their progress from birth to decay, as the vegetable life which the very word “culture” is linked with. Men have so far never got what they want, for “the desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite*.” The word “revolution” itself contains a tragic irony: it is itself a part of the revolving of life and death in a circle of pain.