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 luck and courage. And that’s all I’ve got to say about it.

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I am old, it is true, but I also am resolved to proceed to the New Land. My spirits were already drooping a little, but now once more I hope, I have faith, I am resurrected by new hopes.



Do you hear that? He’s going there too.



See! What I have dreamt of all my life, it is here, it is before us, it has become a reality. No, no. From the old continents nothing more can be awaited; the old continents are played out; they are incapable of giving birth to new life; but there, there upon new foundations a new world is becoming an accomplished fact. At last! Now we have lived to see it. Already I behold the dawn of a new morning. Yonder, yonder shall perhaps fall to our lot the golden age of mankind which the ages have desired.



Do you hear that? Do you hear? The golden age.



And like Simeon



Sirs, pardon us for disturbing you. There is something we should like you to explain to us.