The Future of Mankind

I shall endeavor to use a language suitable to all nations, or rather, forgetting the circumstances of time and place in order to think of nothing but the men I speak to. All that I shall repeat after her must be true without any intermixture of falsehood, but where I may happen without intending it to introduce my own conceits. The times I am going to speak of are very remote, how much you are changed from what you once were. There is an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop, and you will look out for the age at which had you your wish, your species had stopped. But religion does not forbid us to draw conjectures solely from the