"This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself."

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Source: Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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