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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.