Such is my outlook. I look forward to a time when man shall progress upon something worthier and higher than his stomach, when there will be a finer incentive to impel men to action than the incentive of to-day, which is the incentive of the stomach. I retain my belief in the nobility and excellence of the human. I believe that spiritual sweetness and unselfishness will conquer the gross gluttony of to-day. And last of all, my faith is in the working-class. As some Frenchman has said, "The stairway of time is ever echoing with the wooden shoe going up, the polished boot descending."
Origine: Da What Life Means to Me, 1905, pubblicato in Revolution and Other Essays, Macmillan, 1909; citato in What Life Means to Me http://www.jacklondons.net/whatlifemeanstome.html, jacklondons.net.
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