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How Olaf Stapledon Inspired Churchill’s Vision

How Olaf Stapledon Inspired Churchill’s Vision

Of Stapledon’s “Last and First Men” Churchill wrote: “A race of beings was evolved which had mastered nature. A state was created whose citizens lived as long as they chose, enjoyed pleasures and sympathies incomparably wider than our own, navigated the interplanetary spaces, could recall the panorama of the past and foresee the future.” But “without an equal growth of Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love, Science herself may destroy all that makes human life majestic and tolerable....”

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