Which quotation from the passage best supports the
theme that humans have a natural desire to learn about
the world?
read the passage from "by the waters of babylon."
nevertheless, we make a beginning. it is not for the metal
alone we go to the dead places now there are the
books and the writings. they are hard to learn. and the
magic tools are broken-but we can look at them and
wonder. at least, we make a beginning. and, when i am
chief priest we shall go beyond the great river. we shall
go to the place of the gods--the place newyork-not
one man but a company. we shall look for the images of
the gods and find the god ashing and the others-the
gods lincoln and biltmore and moses. but they were
men who built the city, not gods or demons. they were
men. i remember the dead man's face. they were men
who were here before us. we must build again.
"they were men. i remember the dead man's face."
"at least, we make a beginning."
"and the magic tools are broken-but we can look at
them and wonder."
"but they were men who built the city, not gods or
demons."