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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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