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"Dedicating my energies to the study of the social organisation which is in the future to replace the present condition of things, I've come to the conviction that all makers of social systems from ancient times up to the present year, 187-, have been dreamers, tellers of fairy-tales, fools who contradicted themselves, who understood nothing of natural science and the strange animal called man.
The American is a giant in his time; but we are not as they, he is literally a man of to-day; he has to be always in a hurry to make his name tell. We have done all that, but he is wrong to say we are dreamers," and his eyes flashed; "our blood is as full of fire as in the days of the Gracchi, the Caesars."
I have seen them a hundred times when he came down into the village, and yet when I saw them in the vision I did not recognise them." "We're all dreamers, Janci and our dreams are very useless generally." "Yours are not useless, sir," said the shepherd. "If I had as much brains as you have, my dreams might be of some good." Muller smiled.
Joseph showed sympathy with the two dreamers, and his question, 'Why look ye so sadly? unlocked their hearts. He was not so swallowed up in his own trouble as to be blind to the signs of another's sorrow, or slow to try to comfort. Grief is apt to make us selfish, but it is meant to make us tender of heart and quick of hand to help our fellows in calamity.
On whatever subject the conversation begins it always ends in dollars; but even that most stimulating of all topics only arouses a languid interest among my fellow dreamers. I spend most of my time in riding in the forests, or along the bridle path which trails along the height, among grass and frame-houses, almost smothered by trees and trailers.
He particularly dwelt on the idea that they were all knit together now and were as one race. Yet through the smooth words ran a latent threat, a covert warning of the result of any revolt against his authority based on what plotting dreamers might say of the fall of the Bridge, a half-expressed menace, like the gleam of a sword half drawn from the scabbard.
"At any rate, they speak nicely of each other to us," I said. Falkenberg went on with his work. I thought over the whole thing again. "Well, perhaps you may be right as far as that goes, that it's not the wedded life dreamers have dreamed of, still...." But it was no good talking to Falkenberg in that style; he understood never a word. When we stopped work at noon, I took up the talk again.
It is a vast university, endowed by the past with the choicest treasures of art, to which come crowds from all nations, as lovers and dreamers and students, who may be won to live among relics so dear, but who mostly return to stand as interpreters of the beauty they have seen. Therefore, Italy is a theme which cannot grow old, as love and beauty cannot.
And nine-tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' who were believed to be useless, if any one could be such.
He takes the tools he has, though they may seem but toys beside his task, and lo! some morning when the dreamers awake the mountain is no longer there. Faith has had her perfect work. It is faith that gives fortitude, faith that gives force. The dreamers of dreams have ever been, after all, the doers of the great deeds.
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