“Exactly,” said Wilkins.
“I admit that,” said Boon. “But my case is that sanity grows. That what was ceases to be. The mind of reason gets now out of the study into the market-place.”
“You mean really, Boon, that the Mind of the Race isn’t a mind that is, it is just a mind that becomes.”
“That’s what it’s all about,” said Boon.
“And that is where I want to take you up,” said Wilkins. “I want to suggest that the Mind of the Race may be just a gleam of conscious realization that passes from darkness to darkness——”
“No,” said Boon.
“Why not?”
“Because I will not have it so,” said Boon.