“We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.”

—  George Bernard Shaw

Everybody's Political What's What http://books.google.com/books?id=JSwBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22we+have+no+reason+to+suppose+that+we+are+the+Creator's+last+word%22&pg=PA234#v=onepage (1944)
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