Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own.
Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon
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I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own.
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