The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped prim — Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
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The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.

— Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
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