Terry PratchettNow we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and yet we still find war. Must it always be so?
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In his essay A Commonplace Book, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and yet we still find war. Must it always be so?" In this essay, Emerson was talking about how complex life systems can be and how humanity is still fighting for supremacy. This is a comment on how humanity has not learned to live in peace with one another and that we must always be preparing to fight.
Source: The Long Mars
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