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Timebinder, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 6, Spring 1946
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And then came the Thinkers, and of necessity, the pessimists. And here occurred the manifold split, and from the one branch of the Thinkers, there sprang the Doctors, and the Philosophers, and the Scientists, and there occurred the creation of the Dentists. From the Philosophers came the Historians, and the writers, and the Artists. And from the Scientists there came a myriad of Specialists, including the PHYSYCISTS. Here the Tree of Life, which had at first a single shoot, then a bush, and finally the oak that it is today, became too complex for the pessimist. And he classed man as a single type, and established a norm where unnormality is the only thing that the different types of man have in common. And he set up a way of life that only one of his own kind could follow. And he tied man into a straitjacket, and men who would have made great scientists became scientists. But, in the great plan which the pessimists could not visualize, nature had taken care of that. Man went into another subtle mutation, and he began to think for himself. The pessimists had not included America in their plans, for they did not know of it. And to America came the optimists. The men who saw a city instead of a dirty settlement, and those who saw highways where there were trails. And they built in America a country which was FREE. Free in mind as well as body. There the sons of the poor and the sons of the rich learned together, and each man became what he wanted to be. And the Physicist sat in his laboratory, and from his mind came Atomic Power and the bomb, but ‘twas not ahead of its time. It WAS ahead of the time of the pessimists. It was ahead of the time of those who sat and waited. But it was not ahead of the new people. It is these people who will build a world of Doers. We, of course, are but the predecessors of a greater type of man, but we have done much. We should be proud. (This is my personal philosophy. I believe that a greater type of man will deal with the problems that confront us now. However, there is no reason why we shouldn’t try!) *** * *** -12-
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And then came the Thinkers, and of necessity, the pessimists. And here occurred the manifold split, and from the one branch of the Thinkers, there sprang the Doctors, and the Philosophers, and the Scientists, and there occurred the creation of the Dentists. From the Philosophers came the Historians, and the writers, and the Artists. And from the Scientists there came a myriad of Specialists, including the PHYSYCISTS. Here the Tree of Life, which had at first a single shoot, then a bush, and finally the oak that it is today, became too complex for the pessimist. And he classed man as a single type, and established a norm where unnormality is the only thing that the different types of man have in common. And he set up a way of life that only one of his own kind could follow. And he tied man into a straitjacket, and men who would have made great scientists became scientists. But, in the great plan which the pessimists could not visualize, nature had taken care of that. Man went into another subtle mutation, and he began to think for himself. The pessimists had not included America in their plans, for they did not know of it. And to America came the optimists. The men who saw a city instead of a dirty settlement, and those who saw highways where there were trails. And they built in America a country which was FREE. Free in mind as well as body. There the sons of the poor and the sons of the rich learned together, and each man became what he wanted to be. And the Physicist sat in his laboratory, and from his mind came Atomic Power and the bomb, but ‘twas not ahead of its time. It WAS ahead of the time of the pessimists. It was ahead of the time of those who sat and waited. But it was not ahead of the new people. It is these people who will build a world of Doers. We, of course, are but the predecessors of a greater type of man, but we have done much. We should be proud. (This is my personal philosophy. I believe that a greater type of man will deal with the problems that confront us now. However, there is no reason why we shouldn’t try!) *** * *** -12-
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