So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it.

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.