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War and Art It's strange how great movements keep going on and on from mountain peak to mountain peak of usefulness like that, isn't it?—changing their direction now and then as evolution itself does, but always progressing, progressing!

That is one wonderful thing about evolution—it always progresses.

When one thinks it over, one grows more and more conscious that the human race owes a great deal to Evolution, doesn't one?

What could we have done without it?

It's as somebody said about something else one time—if we hadn't had it, you know, it would have been necessary to invent it, though for the life of me, I can't remember who it was or what he said about it. Although likely it was Madame de Staël. We took her up once and it developed that she had said a most surprising number of things like that—things, you know, that would be quite quotable if you could only remember them.

Isn't memory a wonderful faculty, though!

I've always intended to go in for developing mine systematically and scientifically.

But I've never done it because I always forget whether I should order the book-shop people to send home a work on numismatics or a work on mnemonics. One of them is about money, you know, and the other is about memory. And once [69]