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SOCIAL ORGANIZATION :

Here are two men disputing; one knocks the other down, kills him, and then concludes that he who is alive must have been right, and that he who is dead must have been wrong, a mode of demonstration still accepted in international disputes. Here are two other men disputing; one says to the other,"Let us not fight, we may both be killed,let us take our differences to some elder of the tribe,and submit to his decision." It was a crucial moment in human history! For if the answer was, "NO" barbarism continued, if it was "YES" civilization planted another root in the memory of man,the replacement of chaos with order,of brutality with judgment, of violence with law. Here, too, is a gift unfelt, because we are born within the charmed circle of it's protection,and never know its value till we wander into the disordered or solitary regions of the earth.


TOOLS :

We need not be ashamed of our prosperity, opportunities once confined only to barons and kings have been made by enterprise the prerogatives of all. We grow gigantic arms that build in a month the pyramids that once consumed a million men,we make for ourselves great eyes that search out the stars of the sky,and little eyes that peer into the invisible cells of life, we speak, if we wish, with quiet voices that reach across continents and seas, we move over the land and the air with the freedom of timeless gods. in flying we have freed ourselves, and now we may look the eagle in the face.
No these tools will not conquer or defeat us. These great inventions and future ones are clear and visible steps in our progress to a slaveless world. The menial labor that degraded both master and man is lifted from human shoulders and harnessed to the tireless muscles of iron and steel and fibers, soon every wind and every sun ray will pour it's beneficent energy into factories and homes, and man will be freed for the tasks of the mind. It is not revolution but invention that will liberate the slave.


to be continued, salamat for now.