Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.