"Take it wisely."
It was long before all that The Grandfather said made any sense to his hearers, but all of them remembered the words until the time came that they became understandable.
The last thing that The Grandfather said was, "In the old world from which we came, the earliest known culture was one called an ancestor-directed culture. This was understandable in a period when the death rate was so high and old age rare. Old age became magical since so few possessed it. Then as the elderliness alone ceased to be unique they ascended to the next culture pattern, the one I have described as the inner-directed culture. When your ancestors were sent away from earth almost all the earth people had become other-directed. What has happened in this long hiatus in which we've been out of touch with mother earth I cannot hazard an opinion.
"But if we are to proceed on the previous record we can be sure that they have now ascended to a still higher culture pattern. I would suggest that you not lift the force field that surrounds our planet till you have matured enough to be able to meet your earth cousins on an equal footing.
"An inner-directed culture places a terrific premium on fatherhood. That is why you have been raised with such a high opinion of fathers and why all your power symbols are in terms of fatherhood.
"In the next step which you are to take, fatherhood and motherhood will be equated properly and there will be no further emphasis on what has been called the battle of the sexes.
"The battle of the sexes will become not an armed truce, but an equal sharing of what is best in mankind.
"I have left directions as to how you may contact the inter-planetary economy but I suggest you wait till the time is ripe before taking that step.
"And now I am about to go out of phase. At last ... at long last ... I thought it would never come...."