We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.