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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.