“For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes.”

—  Edmund Cooper, book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

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British writer 1926–1982

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