Galápagos

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended in Action alone

to respond to such new technologies. No female of any species, unless, maybe, she was a rhinoceros, could expect to give birth to a baby who was fireproof, bombproof, or bulletproof.
The best that the Law of Natural Selection could come up with in my time was somebody who wasn’t afraid of anything, even though there was so much to fear

exterminated: by meteorites.
To the Captain, it was such a much more honorable and poetical and even beautiful way for humanity to die than World War Three would be.

Of course I love you,
So let’s have a kid
Who will say exactly
What its parents did;

This sort of confusion would be impossible in the present day, since nobody has a name anymore—or a profession, or a life story to tell. All that anybody has in the way of a reputation anymore is an odor which, from birth to death, cannot be modified. People are who they are, and that is that. The Law of Natural Selection has made human beings absolutely honest in that regard. Everybody is exactly what he or she seems to be.