Must Faith Be Exactly That, The Willingness

The Chain Of Life Runs Smoothly From One Generation To The Next And None Of The Links Stand Out Except Here And There A Link One Sees By Accident.

I Did Not Want To Move. For I Had The Feeling That This Was A Place, Once Seen, That Could Not Be Seen Again. If I Left And Then Came Back, It Would Not Be The Same; No Matter How Many Times I Might Return To This Particular Spot The Place And Feeling Would Never Be The Same, Something Would Be Lost Or Something Would Be Added, And There Never Would Exist Again, Through All Eternity, All The Integrated Factors That Made It What It Was In This Magic Moment.

If The Means Were Available, We Could Trace Our Ancestry - Yours And Mine - Back To The First Blob Of Life-like Material That Came Into Being On The Planet.

My Reluctance To Use Alien Invasion Is Due To The Feeling That We Are Not Likely To Be Invaded And Taken Over. It Would Seem To Me That By The Time A Race Has Achieved Deep Space Capability It Would Have Matured To A Point Where It Would Have No Thought Of Dominating Another Intelligent Species. Further Than This, There Should Be No Economic Necessity Of Its Doing So. By The Time It Was Able To Go Into Deep Space, It Must Have Arrived At An Energy Source Which Would Not Be Based On Planetary Natural Resources.

If Mankind Were To Continue In Other Than The Present Barbarism, A New Path Must Be Found, A New Civilization Based On Some Other Method Than Technology