“It is almost a commonplace today to find men and women who, quite naturally and unaffectedly, live in the explicit consciousness of being an atom or a citizen of the universe.”

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. The Divine Milieu. Translated by Siôn Cowell. Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2012, p. 1. [Teilhard had finished this manuscript back in 1927!]