happy birthday for an optimist

[Diane Monaco]

At 08:46 AM 5/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>"From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private ownership
>of the globe by single individuals will appear quite as absurd as private
>ownership of one man by another. Even a whole society, a nation, or even all
>simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the
>globe. They are only its possessors, its usufructuaries, and, like boni
>patres familias, they must hand it down to succeeding generations in an
>improved condition."

This is a wonderful quote...without optimism we really have nothing. Happy 
184th!

Diane