'These people have stared for millenia at the ocean, yet never had the curiosity or wisdom to attempt the building of a ship. Their only concern is what they will eat and drink this day, and where they will sleep this night. They have no apparent concept of future, of aspirations beyond meeting their own physical needs, of art beyond rudimentary scratchings. They in fact seem to have no understanding of the conceptual at all, comprehending only the immediate, the physical and the visible and regarding all else with a childish disinterest or suspicion.'