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Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - The Mind of the Galaxy
Identifier
020302
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Olaf Stapledon – Star Maker
Looking back through the ages of galactic history, down temporal vistas crowded with teeming and diversified populations, the mind of our galaxy saw that itself was the issue of untold strife and grief and hope frustrated.
It confronted all the tortured spirits of the past, not with pity or regret but with smiling content such as a man may feel towards his own childhood's tribulations. And it said, within the mind of each one of its members, 'their suffering, which to them seemed barren evil, was the little price to be paid for my future coming'.
'Right and sweet and beautiful is the whole in which these things happen. For I, I am the heaven in which all my myriad progenitors find recompense, finding their heart's desire. For in the little time that is left me I shall press on, with all my peers throughout the cosmos, to crown the cosmos with perfect and joyful insight and to salute the Maker of Galaxies and Stars and Worlds with fitting praise'