We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time, as a function of our own action. Having seen it, are we to turn away from something that offends the very nature of our earliest desires, or is the recognition of our new powers sufficient to change those desires into the service of the future which they will have to bring about?.
J. D. Bernal (1929) via David Grinspoon
Wow! How could I have missed this?
(no doubt, too occupied with myself, a bad habit ...)