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It would be good to believe that in the course of our history, man, humanity, has become paler, civilized, and more humane. It would be nice to believe that there is less suffering in the world today than there was, say, a hundred or a thousand years ago. If we think about the results of science, we can rejoice. If we think of the "bloody twentieth century", the two world wars, the death camps, Cambodia, Sudan, the three or four billion people living in deep poverty, the billions of animals losing their living space and dying of hunger, then we can cry.