> But in what they do, they seem push humanity forward, to give a reason, a hope. They were the best way to do this in the past, but we have better reasons to

> But in what they do, they seem push humanity forward, to give a reason, a hope. They were the best way to do this in the past, but we have better reasons to hope now: The world is comprehensible and our efforts to understand it meaningfully improve our lives, leading to meaningful improvements in our selves. We are, on the whole, less violent now than we were through most of our history, and there is reason to hope this will continue. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=history-and-the-decline-of-human-violence http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=history-and...