and what is it that i have always believed? first, that imperfections are human. but that wherever human beings were given room to breathe and time to think, those imperfections would disappear, no matter how slowly. i do not believe that we have found or even approached perfection. that is not necessarily in the scheme of human events. handicaps, stumbling blocks, prejudices — all of these are imperfect. yet, they have to be reckoned with because they are in the scheme of human events.