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。 if you can do so, the way lies open to a new paradise。 there lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom。 i cannot believe that this is to be the end。 in art and literature and religion, some men have shown a sublimity of feeling which makes the species worth preserving。 for countless ages the sun rose and set, the moon waxed and waned, the stars shone in the night, but it was only with the ing of man that these things were understood。 as geological time is reckoned, man has so far existed only for a very short period one million years at the most。 i am afraid this hope is illusory。39。 feels vague and abstract。mankindamp。 but what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term amp。 here, then, is the problem which i present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: shall we put an end to the human race1 or shall mankind renounce war? people will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war。 no one knows how widely such lethal radioactive particles might be diffused, but the best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with hydrogen bombs is quite likely to p