“A king of France, when travelling in Catalonia, discovered an ancient man 
engaged unremittingly in the planting of date kernels. ‘Why,’ he asked, ‘do you 
sow the seeds of a tree of such tardy growth, seeing that the dates will not ripen 
till a hundred years be passed?’ ‘Am J not then,’ replied the other, ‘eating the 
fruit of trees planted by my forefathers who took thought for those who were to 
come? Why, therefore, should I not do like unto them?’’’? — Travels of the Bohe- 
mian Lev, Lord of Rozmital and Blatna, in Western Europe (1465-1467). 
