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It Is Possible That Our Race May Be An Accident, In A Meaningless Universe, Living Its Brief Life Uncared For, On This Dark, Cooling Star: But Even So - And All The More - What Marvelous Creatures We Are! What Fairy Story, What Tale From The Arabian Nights Of The Jinns, Is A Hundredth Part As Wonderful As This True Fairy Story Of Simians! It Is So Much More Heartening, Too, Than The Tales We Invent. A Universe Capable Of Giving Birth To Many Such Accidents Is - Blind Or Not - A Good World To Live In, A Promising Universe. . . . We Once Thought We Lived On God's Footstool, It May Be A Throne.

When Eras Die, Their Legacies Are Left To Strange Police. Professors In New England Guard The Glory That Was Greece.

Real Friendships Among Men Are So Rare That When They Occur They Are Famous.

We Talk Of Our Mastery Of Nature, Which Sounds Very Grand; But The Fact Is We Respectfully Adapt Ourselves, First, To Her Ways.

Age Should Not Have Its Face Lifted, But It Should Rather Teach The World To Admire Wrinkles As The Etchings Of Experience And The Firm Line Of Character.