# Quote — William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land

> I saw many creatures that went about the fire, and did have warmth from the fire and drink from the spring; and surely I did ponder that the Peoples of this our Age should say, if they had stood with me, that Providence had made nigh together the warmth and the drink that were needful unto life (for it was grown to a bitter chill now in the Gorge). But rather did this thing seem to me otherwise, that these creatures did be but of their circumstance, and if that it had been another way, then had they grown of their wits to meet it to their means of life. Yet, as some would say, the arguments do but meet, and be the same thing.

- Author: [William Hope Hodgson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-hope-hodgson.md)
- Book: [The Night Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-hope-hodgson/the-night-land.md)
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> We truly to think that the world doth even now be old; and this to have seemed a true thing unto every age that ever did live.

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> And mayhap there to be no mystery in the thing; but a score of natural explainings, if that I did know, or had patience to think long enough upon such.

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> And truly, I to hope that I have made this thing somewise clear unto you; for, indeed, it doth be something hard to set out; for every Age hath the subtleties peculiar to that Age; and these to be hard to the understanding of other Ages, but yet to seem plain and utter natural, even without thought, unto the Peoples of the Age.

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