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“Man's vanity may well approach the infinite in capacity but his knowledge remains imperfect and howevermuch he comes to value his judgements ultimately he must submit them before a higher court… Decisions of life and death, of what shall be and what shall not, beggar all question of right. In elections of these magnitudes are all lesser ones subsumed, moral, spiritual, natural.” (Pg. 261)

“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do any-thing. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine.
And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
You believe that?
I dont know.
Believe that.”