The Secret Key to the Foundation

Human beings have reproduced for nearly a million years, and only the last 4,000 years are meaningful. So, what have we been doing for nearly 25,000 years? We hide in caves, sit around small campfires, and fear the things we don't understand—those explanations of how the sun rises, those monsters with human heads and bird bodies, those living stones. So we call them "gods" and "nightmares" and ask them for forgiveness and pray for salvation. After that, their numbers decreased and ours increased. When we have fewer things to fear, we begin to see the world more rationally. However, the unexplainable does not disappear, as if the universe is deliberately designed to appear absurd and incredible. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.