“Life begins in violence. It always starts that way. But it does not have to persist so. I can tell you that the cruelest confluence is when society is in its adolescence and technology in its nascency. That pairing of uncompromising gears, gnashing together at two different speeds, is a meat grinder. The longer it goes, the freer the blood flows. If your race survives this period, I think you will have something of value to contribute to the rest of us. And if you do not, you will join the ranks of the beautiful extinct, those who ran too fast for their bones to bear, those whose plumage was
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