Hg Wells. Food Of The Gods (№ 174064)

And he that two long days was thinking only of son, suddenly felt superfluous. It suddenly stopped running. And, perhaps for the first time in his life he realized that the son means to the father is incomparably greater than the father for the son, the future is immeasurably more important than the past. Near these two it is nothing to do. He's already played a role.