"Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilization or in a single individual , these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally . For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal ."
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