The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.