stoop
verb (used without object)
to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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For they alone will be able to wield for the benefit of man the brute forces of nature; because they alone will have stooped, to “conquer nature by obeying her.”
From Town Geology by Charles Kingsley