"he, Septimus, was alone, called forth in advance of the mass of men to hear the truth, to learn the meaning, which now at last, after the toils of civilisation-Greeks, Romans, Shakespeare, Darwin, and now himself- was to be given whole to..." (Woolf, 67).
Septimus behaves the way he does not because he is ill, but rather because he knows something that mankind has yet to uncover. The truths of life that were found by the Greeks, Romans, Shakespeare, and Darwin still elude human kind, and he feels as though it is a useless battle, because the truth will endure, not mankind.
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