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When
he
spoke
,
it
was
in
a
pleasant
,
practiced
voice
and
with
a
fireside
manner
.
"
Many
of
us
here
,
"
he
began
,
"
must
still
be
feeling
numbed
under
this
catastrophe
.
The
world
we
knew
has
ended
in
a
flash
.
Some
of
us
may
be
feeling
that
it
is
the
end
of
everything
.
It
is
not
.
But
to
all
of
you
I
will
say
at
once
that
it
can
be
the
end
of
everything
—
if
we
let
it
.
"
Stupendous
as
this
disaster
is
,
there
is
,
however
,
still
a
margin
of
survival
.
It
may
be
worth
remembering
just
now
that
we
are
not
unique
in
looking
upon
vast
calamity
.
Whatever
the
myths
that
have
grown
up
about
it
,
there
can
be
no
doubt
that
somewhere
far
back
in
our
history
there
was
a
Great
Flood
.
Those
who
survived
that
must
have
looked
upon
a
disaster
comparable
in
scale
with
this
and
,
in
some
ways
,
more
formidable
.
But
they
cannot
have
despaired
;
they
must
have
begun
again
—
as
we
can
begin
again
.
"
Self
-
pity
and
a
sense
of
high
tragedy
are
going
to
build
nothing
at
all
.
So
we
had
better
throw
them
out
at
once
,
for
it
is
builders
that
we
must
become
.
"
And
further
to
deflate
any
romantic
dramatization
,
I
would
like
to
point
out
to
you
that
this
,
even
now
,
is
not
the
worst
that
could
have
happened
.
I
,
and
quite
likely
many
of
you
,
have
spent
most
of
my
life
in
expectation
of
something
worse
.
And
I
still
believe
that
it
this
had
not
happened
to
us
,
that
worse
thing
would
.
"
From
August
6
,
1945
,
the
margin
of
survival
has
narrowed
appallingly
.
Indeed
,
two
days
ago
it
was
narrower
than
it
is
at
this
moment
.
If
you
need
to
dramatize
,
you
could
well
take
for
your
material
the
years
succeeding
1945
,
when
the
path
of
safety
staffed
to
shrink
to
a
tightrope
along
which
we
had
to
walk
with
our
eyes
deliberately
closed
to
the
depths
beneath
us
.
"
In
any
single
moment
ofthe
years
since
then
the
fatal
slip
might
have
been
made
.
It
is
a
miracle
that
it
was
not
.
It
is
a
double
miracle
that
can
go
on
happening
for
years
.
"
But
sooner
or
later
that
slip
must
have
occurred
.
It
would
not
have
mattered
whether
it
came
through
malice
,
carelessness
,
or
sheer
accident
:
the
balance
would
have
been
lost
and
the
destruction
let
loose
.
"
How
bad
it
would
have
been
,
we
cannot
say
.
How
bad
it
could
have
been
—
well
,
there
might
have
been
no
survivors
;
there
might
possibly
have
been
no
planet
.
.
"
And
now
contrast
our
situation
.
The
Earth
is
intact
,
Un
-
scarred
,
still
fruitful
.
It
can
provide
us
with
food
and
raw
materials
.
We
have
repositories
of
knowledge
that
can
teach
us
to
do
anything
that
has
been
done
before
—
though
there
are
some
things
that
may
be
better
unremembered
.
And
we
have
the
means
,
the
health
,
and
the
strength
to
begin
to
build
again
.
"
