If we as a species do turn out to have brought not just new life, but a new kind of life, into the world, then we will of necessity have done so to some extent

If we as a species do turn out to have brought not just new life, but a new kind of life, into the world, then we will of necessity have done so to some extent in our own image, no matter how strangely refracted. One hopes that, among that of ourselves we put into it, we will by intent or happenstance include the part that enables so many of us to transcend our initial circumstances, be they ever so strait, and become something different and altogether better than any of our forebears had the wit or inclination or both even to imagine for us. So I'd hope, at least, in that case - for their sake, as well as for our own.