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ended. I thought of a sentence Darwin wrote in his
Beagle
journal: 'Only the other day I looked
forward to this airy barrier as a definite point in our journey homewards; but now I find it, all such
resting-places for the imagination are like shadows, which a man moving onwards cannot catch.'
After all, the geographical questions may have been answered, but the metaphysical ones re-
main, and the most foreign territory will always lie within.
