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The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry

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“Those who achieved power were satisfied so long as they could merely retain it, and advertise it uncritically in the conventionally self-assertive manners.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future

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“We must achieve neither mere history, nor mere fiction, but myth. A true myth is one which, within the universe of a certain culture (living or dead), expresses richly, and often perhaps tragically, the highest admirations possible within that culture.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future

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“Science now held a position of unique honour among the First Men. This was not so much because it was in this field that the race long ago during its high noon had thought most rigorously, nor because it was through science that men had gained some insight into the nature of the physical world, but rather because the application of scientific principles had revolutionized their material circumstances.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future

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“...the whole of American life was organized around the cult of the powerful individual, that phantom ideal which Europe herself had only begun to outgrow in her last phase. Those Americans who wholly failed to realize this ideal, who remained at the bottom of the social ladder, either consoled themselves with hopes for the future, or stole symbolical satisfaction by identifying themselves with some popular star, or gloated upon their American citizenship, and applauded the arrogant foreign policy of their government.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men

tags: horatio-alger-myth, imperialism, individualism, nationalism

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