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We cannot be far from the day of the conversation-machine that will relieve us of obligation to greet politely the occasional recognizable human that strays across our path.
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Later in the day the tall, solemn, black-bearded doctor made his rounds, with an intern and a troop of students following at his heels, but there were about sixty of us in the ward and it was evident that he had other wards to attend to as well. There were many beds past which he walked day after day, sometimes followed by imploring cries. On the other hand if you had some disease with which the students wanted to familiarize themselves you got plenty of attention of a kind. I myself, with an exceptionally fine specimen of a bronchial rattle, sometimes had as many as a dozen students queuing up to listen to my chest. It was a very queer feeling — queer, I mean, because of their intense interest in learning their job, together with a seeming lack of any perception that the patients were human beings.
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We do not feel the solitude, divided as we still are into hostile peoples who look upon one another as foreigners and try to exterminate one another. When, however, mankind on earth has become united, the consciousness of our being the sole humanity in our solar system -- separated from other systems by impassable distances -- will exert a determining influence upon our life-concept.
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...humans were as much the product of natural selection as any other living organism.
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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos.
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April 13, 2020 : Humanity -- Added.
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