It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a
beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the
dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever
accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. We cannot see, there
is no need for us to see, what this world will be like when the day has
fully come. We are creatures of the twilight. But it is out of our race
and lineage that minds will spring, that will reach back to us in our
littleness to know us better than we know ourselves, and that will reach
forward fearlessly to comprehend this future that defeats our eyes. All
this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will
come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who
are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon
this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out
their hands amidst the stars. -- H.G. Wells
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