Prompt: Quotation 1: A passage from “Tolerance” by E. M. Forster: In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something much less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely, tolerance. Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. No one has ever written an ode to tolerance or raised a statue to her. Yet this is the quality which will be most needed after the war. This is the sound state of mind which we are looking for. This is the only force which will enable different races and classes and interests to settle down together to the work of reconstruction.

Quotation 2: A sentence from “Should We Terraform Mars?”: We should appreciate the differences in and variety of worlds instead of just transforming them to suit our own ambitions.