¶ Millay, Edna St. Vincent (3)
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"the great Atlantic ports of Europe-- would be forever terminated. Her writing fortifies the historic fact that poets are the earliest to foresee and express almost all of the important concept changes in the evolution of humanity’s development around the surface of the spherical Space ship Earth.
"How now my insulated friend,
What calm composure can defend
Your rock when tides you’ve never seen
Wash out the sands of what has been,
And from your island’s tallest tree
You watch advance what is to be?
The tidal wave devours the shore.
There are no islands any more.
“Thus Edna St. Vincent Millay foresaw the inexorable development of a one-town world and its progressively crossbreeding world citizenship lying around the spherical bottom of the sky ocean. Modern technology in general has terminated the fundamental isolation of any part of the Spaceship Earth’s surface from another part. It is effectively integrating humanity as its individuals live ever more dynamically around our spaceship’s spherical deck.”
