A Longitudinal Family Of Mankind

I've always loved that the Wall Street Journal published the same excellent editorial every Christmas. So, I have decided to follow their example and publish my own editorial in every December issue of FMP. I think it's important to take a long view of the world occasionally, and the holiday season seems a good time to do it.

We are one longitudinal family of mankind.

If you could go back in time a thousand years, you would find individuals who reminded you very much of your current friends and companions. The same is true of people who will live a thousand years from now: Some of them will be nearly identical to the people you love now.

You would love and care for those people the same as you do their counterparts here and now.

Please understand this: Those in the future, who would be our beloveds, can only advance in the same way that we have: By the benefaction of their predecessors.

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