we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity,

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A source trail connects this quotation to Albert Einstein and The World as I See It, but the exact English wording has not been confirmed in a primary text. The attribution is therefore probable rather than definitive.

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