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Excerpt from Memories of the Future: Being Memoirs of the Years 1915-1972; Written in the Year of Grace 1988
And if they could come down to defend their cause against us, they would surely remonstrate with us by appealing to us to do as we would be done by Your own times, too, they would say, used one day to seem uncouth, and hectic, and over-emotional: and brilliant pessimists disproved the possibility of doing What you did, before you had time to do it. Learn to forget that we were ever held up to you as models of what men Should be remember only that We are pictures of what men will be: to see human nature, fashioned Of the same clay and cast in the same ultimate mould as yourselves, living in other conditions and reacting upon a situation that is not yours, may be tedious indeed, but not altogether unprofitable. DO not despise the future you go into it, and from you it comes.
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