"Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure . It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown the best of thmeselves."
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