sneers that they have no place in the new century. They mean to take their place.

Update: One of the Israeli injuries in the latest round of Hamas terror attacks was a man who threw himself on top of children to protect them, and was hit by rocket shrapnel. Compare that to Hamas’ human-shield tactics – the unforgivable, inexcusable, daily war crimes some people on the West are wholly uninterested in holding them to account for.his strange
inventions, and extraordinary inclination for mechanics. That
instead of playing among the other boys, when from school, he
always busied himself in making knick-knacks and models of wood in
many kinds. For which purposes he had got little saws, hatchets,
hammers, and a whole shop of tools, which he would use with great
dexterity. In particular they speak of his making a wooden
clock...."

Or this image of Stephen Hawking's youth, as recounted in a
recent biography:

"Stephen's [Hawking] room... was the magician's lair,
the mad professor's laboratory, and the messy teenager's study all
rolled into one. Among the general detritus and debris,
half-finished homework, mugs of undrunk tea, schoolbooks and bits
of model aircraft and bizarre gadgets lay in untended heaps. On the
sideboard stood electrical devices, the uses of which could only be
guessed at, and next to those a