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Timebinder, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 6, Spring 1946

psychically as well as technologically. It seems to me that our free country of 140,000,000 people governing itself is a pretty good indication of a fairly high level of general intelligence.

   Also, more and more people are coming to realize that mankind is one brotherhood and that national boundaries and race mean nothing in the larger sense. Thirty years ago most people would have laughed at such a conception, but in another 30 to 50 years, great things in world brotherhood will come, if [underlined] the U. S. really takes the lead.

     You will admit that the average person today is much better informed and educated, and is much less superstitious than 100 or 1000 or 3000 years ago. 250 years ago they were burning "witches" at the stake. Today, of course, there a few miscarriages of justice, but not like there were 50 or 100 years ago.

     I will say that technological advance is no indication of "civilization". In our Stf stories we have seen pictures highly mechanized societies, but they didn't have the psychic qualities to run them and were exterminated or died out. Right now we are that way with the atomic bomb. Handled in the wrong way, which it might easily be, it can wipe out most of our civilization (?). I have often wondered, even when I was a child, why there is the mad rush to advance technologically so fast. For instance, I am well content to stay on the ground and go 30 or 35 miles an hour, rather than fly at 200 or 500 MPH. I guess that "progress" forward is an innate quality of the human character, and a few like me who don't understand it are the queer ones. Let me have my share of work to do, and let me live near the mountains, and I ask no further advances in society as far as machines go.

     His philosophy is fine, but it seems to lack a purpose. It may be he is right, however, and there is no purpose. I really don't worry much about it. I feel that when we die we will either probably laugh at a lot of things we believed as humans; if the latter, it won't matter anyway.

     As to the 10 Commandments, they should be used in conjunction with the Golden Rule, according to Jesus, and if that were done, we would have an end of trouble in this world. As to developing a stable philosophy of living, I imagine it does take a different amount of time for different people. I know that at 24 I am nowhere near the goal. I am glad when he says "but who am I to condemn the believer in it ( any particular creed), who finds his needs satisfied by it? Tolerance is a thing that is needed greatly these days. Hats off to Evans, who has it!

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psychically as well as technologically. It seems to me that our free country of 140,000,000 people governing itself is a pretty good indication of a fairly high level of general intelligence. Also, more and more people are coming to realize that mankind is one brotherhood and that national boundaries and race mean nothing in the larger sense. Thirty years ago most people would have laughed at such a conception, but in another 30 to 50 years, great things in world brotherhood will come, if [underlined] the U. S. really takes the lead. You will admit that the average person today is much better informed and educated, and is much less superstitious than 100 or 1000 or 3000 years ago. 250 years ago they were burning "witches" at the stake. Today, of course, there a few miscarriages of justice, but not like there were 50 or 100 years ago. I will say that technological advance is no indication of "civilization". In our Stf stories we have seen pictures highly mechanized societies, but they didn't have the psychic qualities to run them and were exterminated or died out. Right now we are that way with the atomic bomb. Handled in the wrong way, which it might easily be, it can wipe out most of our civilization (?). I have often wondered, even when I was a child, why there is the mad rush to advance technologically so fast. For instance, I am well content to stay on the ground and go 30 or 35 miles an hour, rather than fly at 200 or 500 MPH. I guess that "progress" forward is an innate quality of the human character, and a few like me who don't understand it are the queer ones. Let me have my share of work to do, and let me live near the mountains, and I ask no further advances in society as far as machines go. His philosophy is fine, but it seems to lack a purpose. It may be he is right, however, and there is no purpose. I really don't worry much about it. I feel that when we die we will either probably laugh at a lot of things we believed as humans; if the latter, it won't matter anyway. As to the 10 Commandments, they should be used in conjunction with the Golden Rule, according to Jesus, and if that were done, we would have an end of trouble in this world. As to developing a stable philosophy of living, I imagine it does take a different amount of time for different people. I know that at 24 I am nowhere near the goal. I am glad when he says "but who am I to condemn the believer in it ( any particular creed), who finds his needs satisfied by it? Tolerance is a thing that is needed greatly these days. Hats off to Evans, who has it! - 28 -