Over, what the speaker called the battle of the moon is. About to begin, I expect that the battle of earth is. Of human civilization upon this battle depends the survival. Our own human life upon it depends, and of our institutions and our city the long continuity. Very soon be turned on us, the whole fury and might of the enemy must. He will have to break us on this planet or lose the war, oryx knows that he will. If stand up to him, we can move forward into broad sunlit uplands all the solar system may be free and the life, but if we fail, then the whole world, including the nine, including all that, known and cared for, have we, sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, will, and perhaps more protracted, of perverted science by the lights. Therefore brace ourselves to our duties let us, and for a thousand years so bear ourselves that if the city and its colonies last, still say, men will, their finest hour, 'this was.