1:08:00
Yet in the normal course of existence...
1:08:03
...you can expect 20 or 30 years...
1:08:07
...of gradually diminishing activity.
1:08:13
Here, however, in Shangri-La...
1:08:17
...by our standards,
your life has just begun.
1:08:23
And may go on and on.
1:08:31
To be candid, Father,
a prolonged future doesn't excite me.
1:08:36
lt would have to have a point.
1:08:38
I sometimes doubted
whether life itseIf has any.
1:08:41
If that is so,
then long life must be even more pointless.
1:08:45
I'd need a much more definite reason
for going on and on.
1:08:50
We have reason.
1:08:53
It is the entire meaning
and purpose of Shangri-La.
1:08:57
lt came to me in a vision...
1:09:01
...long ago.
1:09:05
I saw all the nations strengthening...
1:09:08
...not in wisdom, but in the vulgar passions
and the will to destroy.
1:09:15
I saw their machine power multiplying...
1:09:17
...until a single-weaponed man
might match a whole army.
1:09:25
I foresaw a time when man,
exulting in the technique of murder...
1:09:30
...would rage so hotly over the world...
1:09:33
...that every book, every treasure
would be doomed to destruction.
1:09:41
This vision was so vivid and so moving...
1:09:47
...that I determined to gather together
all things of beauty...
1:09:51
...and culture that I could
and preserve them here...
1:09:57
...against the doom
toward which the world is rushing.