Into the clear sweet air

I believe in the vast potentialities of mankind.
    But see everywhere a wide disparity
        between what they can be and what they are.
That is what I want to say in writing.
    I want to say the genius of the human race is mongrelized;
        I want to find out how mankind can be helped
            out of the animal kingdom into the clear sweet air.

                        Clifford Odets, Letter to John Mason Brown