Given that this musical is about one of the U.S. Founding Fathers, this quote seems particularly meaningful. The Founding Fathers did what they thought best for the country as it was formed, as it developed in their lifetimes and in the future. But this future only went so far as they had the capability of imagining.

There comes a point when we are limited in terms of what we believe will occur in the future. Five hundred years ago, no one could have come up with the idea of computers or the internet. Yet, since one thing must build upon another, there were important things that were accomplished, discovered, invented and created hundreds of years ago that were built upon until modern technology was possible. They will continue to be built upon in the foreseeable future and far this period, into a period we can’t begin to imagine, to establish more advanced technology that we can’t even think up in our head today.

Similarly, the Founding Fathers could not predict what effects they would have on the continued growth and development of the new nation they had such a large part in establishing. This idea isn’t just true of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. or other great leaders or influencers.

Each of us affects our immediate surroundings, friends and families but we rarely stop to realized that these effects not just go past this immediate environment but also will go forward into time to influence a future we cannot imagine. This should motivate us to try to make a positive difference, even if it is just a small one, in some aspect of our lives every day. This will provide not just an effect for the present but will provide things that can be built upon and which will have positive effects far into the future.



