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Timebinder, v. 1, issue 4, 1945
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apparently designed to make it unobtrusive. The way the harshest of people show affection to pets indicates, I think, an interest for -- dare I say it? -- love, which most of us don't dare admit. I don't say people have no naturally evil impulses, because I know I do, myself, and others seem to. I merely say we are a much nicer race than we give ourselves a chance to be. To THE TIME-BINDER: long life! Answer to Paul Spencer: It has been a pleasing thing to me to notice, in the vicious comments about the case of the Conscientious Objector, that every single service man who has written about it has been sympathetic and tolerant of the C.O.'s whereas those civilians who have written has been bombastic and sarcastic about it. I think it shows how mature and thoughtful our boys have become concerning the facts and theories of life, and how they realize so well that others may have ideas which, merely because they do not coincide with their own, may yet be good and correct. -- EEE. ###### HARRY WARNER, JR. I told you last letter I was determined to write something about THE TIME-BINDER. Well, I've read the second issue since then, and find that most of Chauvenet's letter expresses the main thing I wanted to express -- that your implied criticism w2as a little too Pollyannaish. That was the impression on that first issue, and to be frank with you, little in this second issue contradicts it, other than the fourth and fifth lines on page 21. So you ask why so many of us are afraid of optimism. I am one of those, in a particular sense. I fear that too much optimism is one of the roots of the world's evil today. It isn't optimism in the sense you usually employ the word but is something very closely akin. Its forms are manifest and varied: the German people's blind faith that all they wanted would be theirs with Hitler in the driver's seat and the Jews exterminated; the manner in which most people refuse to save a cent today, figuring that either prosperity will continue after the war or a welfare board will take care of them; the absolute self-assurance that is the only common denominator among all the cranks, eccentrics and people with a mission in the world who are convinced that they are the only saviors of mankind. Or, let's look at it another way. Everyone I know insists that I worry too much. In one respect only, they are right. I am very conscientious about my worrying, and let it extend some- 17
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apparently designed to make it unobtrusive. The way the harshest of people show affection to pets indicates, I think, an interest for -- dare I say it? -- love, which most of us don't dare admit. I don't say people have no naturally evil impulses, because I know I do, myself, and others seem to. I merely say we are a much nicer race than we give ourselves a chance to be. To THE TIME-BINDER: long life! Answer to Paul Spencer: It has been a pleasing thing to me to notice, in the vicious comments about the case of the Conscientious Objector, that every single service man who has written about it has been sympathetic and tolerant of the C.O.'s whereas those civilians who have written has been bombastic and sarcastic about it. I think it shows how mature and thoughtful our boys have become concerning the facts and theories of life, and how they realize so well that others may have ideas which, merely because they do not coincide with their own, may yet be good and correct. -- EEE. ###### HARRY WARNER, JR. I told you last letter I was determined to write something about THE TIME-BINDER. Well, I've read the second issue since then, and find that most of Chauvenet's letter expresses the main thing I wanted to express -- that your implied criticism w2as a little too Pollyannaish. That was the impression on that first issue, and to be frank with you, little in this second issue contradicts it, other than the fourth and fifth lines on page 21. So you ask why so many of us are afraid of optimism. I am one of those, in a particular sense. I fear that too much optimism is one of the roots of the world's evil today. It isn't optimism in the sense you usually employ the word but is something very closely akin. Its forms are manifest and varied: the German people's blind faith that all they wanted would be theirs with Hitler in the driver's seat and the Jews exterminated; the manner in which most people refuse to save a cent today, figuring that either prosperity will continue after the war or a welfare board will take care of them; the absolute self-assurance that is the only common denominator among all the cranks, eccentrics and people with a mission in the world who are convinced that they are the only saviors of mankind. Or, let's look at it another way. Everyone I know insists that I worry too much. In one respect only, they are right. I am very conscientious about my worrying, and let it extend some- 17
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