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• If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence
  hen we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy-- *sic transit gloria mundi*....
• we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands.
  The earth is billions of years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary descent....
• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity.
  If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery....
• We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life
  few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within....
• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery
  do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant?...
• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery
  do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant?...
• But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand.
  Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell....