“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
“When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
“As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
“The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Not exactly a happy ending.
But, as it will be in the future, it was at the birth of man ... there are only four things certain since social progress began...
From the vantage point of the year after The Great War, Kipling laid-out the next century for us.