My Reluctance To Use Alien Invasion Is

I Have Tried At Times To Place Humans In Perspective Against The Vastness Of Universal Time And Space. I Have Been Concerned With Where We, As A Race, May Be Going And What May Be Our Purpose In The Universal Scheme — If We Have A Purpose. In General, I Believe We Do, And Perhaps An Important One.

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.

These Are The Stories The Dogs Tell, When The Fires Burn High And The Wind Is From The North.

There Is A Plan, It Seems To Me, That Reaches Out Of The Electron To The Rim Of The Universe And What This Plan May Be Or How It Came About Is Beyond My Feeble Intellect. But If We Are Looking For Something On Which To Pin Our Faith- And, Indeed, Our Hope- The Plan Might Well Be It. I Think We Have Thought Too Small And Have Been Too Afraid.

It Seems To Me, Thinking Of It, That There Must Be Some Universal Plan Which Set In Motion The Orbiting Of The Electrons About The Nucleus And The Slower, More Majestic Orbit Of The Galaxies About One Another To The Very Edge Of Space