Passage Two
Thoughts from yesterday guide us toward tomorrow.
More than 2000 years ago, Caecilius Statius, a Roman slave who became famous as a playwright, observed, we plant trees to benefit another generation. His remark is as apt as it was when he made it and shows how thinkers of the past can still teach us something about the future.
George Bernard Show, for instance, made an even more perceptive remark. We are made wise, not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. This responsibility begins when we recognize that we ourselves create our future that the future is not something imposed upon us by fate or other forces beyond our control. We ourselves build the future both through what we do and what we do not do. Once we recognize our power over the future, we inevitably begin to anticipate the consequences of what we do and to do those things that will improve our future; in short, we begin to act wisely.
And our own responsibility for the future bears the promise of a better future world, because, as C. P. Snow, the novelist and philosopher, once remarked: The sense of the future is behind all good policies. Unless we have it, we can give nothing either wise or decent to the world. And our obligations must be more to the future than the past. Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Passage Three
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