Creatures That Once Were Men Illustrated

It is certainly curious that so many voices of what is called our modern religion come from countries which are not only simple, but which can even be called barbarians. A nation like Norway has a great realistic drama without ever having had a great classic drama or a great romantic drama. A nation like Russia makes us feel its modern fiction while we have never felt its ancient fiction. He produced his Gissing without producing his Scott. All that is saddest and most scientific, all that is darkest and most analytical, all that can truly be called the most modern, all that can without unreasonableness be called the most morbid, comes of these fresh, new and inexhaustible nationalities. From these nascent peoples emerge the oldest voices in the world.