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Timebinder, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 6, Spring 1946
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THE LOGICS OF MANKIND. By Algis Budrys. In the past few years there has arisen a goodly host of deeply imbued pessimists, who have managed by sheer vocal and literary power to convince the world that it is doomed. They have, by grit and determination, “proved” that mankind has grown illogical, purposeless, and that it has strayed from the path ordained to it by nature and evolution. As a clincher to these narrow-minded arguments, they point to the Atomic bomb as the final symbol of terrestrial savagery, and, in voices filled with the wrath of God, have proclaimed to mankind in general that it is not “ready” for this awful weapon. To these I say “Bosh!” In your passionate speeches, your dramatic writings, you have made the world forget one salient weakness in your whole doctrine, you have glossed over the one little fact that would discredit you. ALL THAT IS MERELY YOUR OWN OPINION. Because you are incurably pessimistic, and because you believe that man was born to be deluded, fooled, all of his life, you have reached back into your musty books, and have drawn “precedents”. Man is an animal, and as such, as a living, breathing organism, he evolves. He moves, and he changes. And in frequent intervals, these changes amount to so much that, in effect, he becomes a new species. Consider the stone age man. Scholars of today speak of him as a dead end, or at best, a mere evolutionary step. The Stone Man was put in earth for a definite purpose, as was everything else. He, with his rugged body, his tremendous strength, was needed to wipe out the predatory animals of his time. He has no need of great brains. He was to make way for the first farmer, and in his lifetime, brains would have been a handicap. After the Stone Age Man, who cleared the way for him, came the former. His duty was to plant the earth, to till, and to make the ground work for him, yielding food instead of his having to hunt for food. And with him began thought, and the first PEACEFUL tool in the world. And after the farmer came the builder. He furnished the homes for man, and the seaports, and the market places. And the FORUMS. A split occurred in his ranks, and the architect appeared, and he invented MEASURES. The foot and the inch and the gallon and the litre. For he was in need of EXACTITUDE. -11-
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THE LOGICS OF MANKIND. By Algis Budrys. In the past few years there has arisen a goodly host of deeply imbued pessimists, who have managed by sheer vocal and literary power to convince the world that it is doomed. They have, by grit and determination, “proved” that mankind has grown illogical, purposeless, and that it has strayed from the path ordained to it by nature and evolution. As a clincher to these narrow-minded arguments, they point to the Atomic bomb as the final symbol of terrestrial savagery, and, in voices filled with the wrath of God, have proclaimed to mankind in general that it is not “ready” for this awful weapon. To these I say “Bosh!” In your passionate speeches, your dramatic writings, you have made the world forget one salient weakness in your whole doctrine, you have glossed over the one little fact that would discredit you. ALL THAT IS MERELY YOUR OWN OPINION. Because you are incurably pessimistic, and because you believe that man was born to be deluded, fooled, all of his life, you have reached back into your musty books, and have drawn “precedents”. Man is an animal, and as such, as a living, breathing organism, he evolves. He moves, and he changes. And in frequent intervals, these changes amount to so much that, in effect, he becomes a new species. Consider the stone age man. Scholars of today speak of him as a dead end, or at best, a mere evolutionary step. The Stone Man was put in earth for a definite purpose, as was everything else. He, with his rugged body, his tremendous strength, was needed to wipe out the predatory animals of his time. He has no need of great brains. He was to make way for the first farmer, and in his lifetime, brains would have been a handicap. After the Stone Age Man, who cleared the way for him, came the former. His duty was to plant the earth, to till, and to make the ground work for him, yielding food instead of his having to hunt for food. And with him began thought, and the first PEACEFUL tool in the world. And after the farmer came the builder. He furnished the homes for man, and the seaports, and the market places. And the FORUMS. A split occurred in his ranks, and the architect appeared, and he invented MEASURES. The foot and the inch and the gallon and the litre. For he was in need of EXACTITUDE. -11-
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