The Moral Vision
Quiet Endeavour
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considerations. This is summed up in the response
of Orville Wright to a question put to him after
World War II, when terrible destruction had been
unleashed by the airplanes that had been developed
from his basic model. Had Wright thought that
their invention would be used for such dreadful
purposes as was now the case? “That day at Kitty
Hawk,” he replied, “we thought only of getting off
the ground.”
