All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1902, The Discovery of the Future (p. 392), Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C. 1903