Sunday, November 06, 2005
"Let me remind you of what is sometimes told as a jest, the fact that the number of one's ancestors increases as we look back in time...each one of us had two parents, four grandparents, eight grandparents, and so on backward, until very soon, in less than fifty generations, we should have all the earth's inhabitants of that time as our progenitors...And there is something more. We are all going to mingle our blood again. We cannot keep ourselves apart; the worst enemies will some day come to the Peace of Verona. All the Montagues and Capulets are doomed to intermarry. A time will come in less than fifty generations when all the population of the world will have my blood, and I and my worst enemy will not be able to say which child is his or mine...You see from this point of view...our individualities, our nations, and states and races, are but bubbles and clusters of foam upon the great steam of the blood of the species, incidental experiments in the growing knowledge and consciousness of the race."H.G. Wells, First and Last Things (1908)
May this culture forget its individualism and may we learn to put aside our bickering - to know that all blood is human blood, all sin is human sin and all life is shared.
elizabeth at 21:02
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at 9:51 PM
Jay & Renee said... insight...hmmm... on a different note - we miss you. what the heck? when can we get together?