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cells   of  skin  that  peel  in  clustered  communities  from  our  arms  after  a
sunburn, we make our contributions to the whole of which we are a part.
Sometimes we make that contribution with our life.  Sometimes we make it
with our death.
Superorganisms, ideas, and the pecking order--the triad of human evil-
-are not recent inventions, "programmed" into us by Western Society,
consumerism, capitalism, television violence, blood-and-guts films or rock
and roll.  They are built into our physiology.  They have been with us since
the dawn of our race.
But there is hope that we may someday free ourselves of savagery.  To
our species, evolution has given something new--the imagination.  With that
gift we have dreamed of peace.  Our task--perhaps the only one that will save
us--is to turn what we have dreamed into reality.  To fashion a world where
violence ceases to be.  If we can accomplish this goal, we may yet escape our
fate... as highly precocious offspring, as fitting inheritors of nature's highest
gift and foulest curse, as the ultimate children of The Lucifer Principle.
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