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No great man is ever born too soon or too late. When
we say that the time is not ripe for this or that celebrity, we confess
by implication that this very man, and no other, is required. Was
Giordano Bruno, or Edgar Poe, born out of time? Surely no generation
needed them more imperiously than their own. Only fools are born out of
time. And yet--no; not even they. For where should we be without them?"
He smiles suavely, as though some pleasant thought was passing through
his mind.
"At any rate a good many people die too soon or too late," said Mr.
Edgar Marten who, after doing full justice to the food and drinks, had
suddenly appeared on the scene. "Often too late," he added.
Keith, despite his professions of sanity and reason, had an
inexplicable, invincible horror of death; he quailed at the mere
mention of the black phantom. The subject being not at all to his
taste, he promptly remarked:
"The scholar Grosseteste was unquestionably born too soon. And I know
one man who is born too late.


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