Word: hindmost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could not help comparing the [Jan. 19] approach to life of the "Power Boys" with that of Mother Teresa and the other "Living Saints" you presented a few weeks ago. If our best response to the problems of the world is "Devil take the hindmost," then the species does not deserve to survive...
Whether rich nations will in fact make short-term sacrifices for the sake of long-term gains is debatable. Certainly, the traditional response has been for every country to try to maximize its own immediate wellbeing, and the devil take the hindmost. But the Club of Rome insists that altruism is possible if seen not as charity but as necessity. The alternative, it repeats over and over again, is mankind's lemming-like rush toward disaster...