Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out to be. Though clearly they were imperfect."" I don't deny that they were imperfect, " Julian said in a distant voice. "I'm not uncritical of the Secular Ancients, Adam. They had all sorts of vices, and they committed one sin for which I can never bring myself to entirely forgive them."" What sin is that?"" They evolved into us, " he said. Robert Charles Wilson
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I don't deny that they were imperfect. I'm not uncritical of the Secular Ancients, Adam. They had all sorts of vices, and they committed one sin for which I can never bring myself to entirely forgive them. What sin is that? They evolved into us."

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story Of 22Ndcentury America

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