Sublime

That high-tech stuff made its debut in Octave Béliard’s 1910 novel, The Journey of a Parisian in the 21st Century, wherein the author proposes terraforming the moon — giving it an atmosphere and vegetation and turning it into a sanctuary for endangered species and a possible human colonization site. The idea reappeared in a 1927 essay by famed

for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the power of change, the essential function of life.

A great dying, a great extinction of many species, has been occurring since at least the pinnacle of the partnership society in prehistoric Africa. Our future lies in the mind; our weary planet’s only hope of survival is that we find ourselves in the mind and make of it a friend that can reunite us with the earth while simultaneously carrying us to

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