The Stipulation of Anticipation.

For is not life mainly a matter of Remembering, Participating and Anticipating—or living partly in the Past, the Present, and the Future, in proportions commensurate with each individual's capacity? And cannot the Future be as real as the Past and Present, seeing that Thought can be as real as reality? Anticipation is only Thought dressed in its best clothes and coloured with the pigment of human desire.

And so, dear reader (if any), at the gate of this New Year, Anticipation beckons you to enter. The Past has its place; the Present is the arena of Endeavour; but the Future is every man's own garden in which he can plant the flowers of fantasy that please his fancy. His hopes are his own, and nobody but he can pluck them if he guards them as he should.