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Sea: The Sea:
"Playboy: It seems a very melodramatic kind of evolution that would have man verge so close to extinction before discovering his function. Do you think that risking extinction may be part of the process of discovery?
“RBF: He’s done it all the time. He kept going to sea, kept going after those fish, and his boat was inadequate and he was lost. Of all the people who have gone to sea historically, I imagine that very few returned. There was such loss in the beginning. But out of it man began gradually to learn his engineering, to learn how to anticipate the enormous stresses, the constant peril. And he began to develop beautiful fibers, better ropes, better sails, I think our breakthroughs always come to the people who were risking themselves very close to the brink.”
