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 never a chimney smokes about our world today, and the sound of the weeping of children who toiled and hungered, the dull despair of overburdened women, the noise of brute quarrels in alleys, all shameful pleasures and all the ugly grossness of wealthy pride have gone with them, with the utter change of our lives. As I look back into the past I see a vast exultant dust of house-breaking and removal rise up into the clear air; I live again the Year of Tents, the Years of Scaffolding, and like the triumph of a new theme in a piece of music—the great cities of our new days arise.

Caesar and Cleopatra

(See pages 193, 212, 263, 402, 760, 798)

(The Romans have set fire to the Library of Alexandria)

of mankind.
 * —What is burning there is the memory


 * —A shameful memory. Let it burn.

(wildly):—Will you destroy the past?


 * —Ay, and build the future with its ruins.

(See pages 77, 486, 652, 838)

The old order changeth, yielding place to new And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.