14 Final Analysis and Guiding Considerations essential to a well rounded solution.
2While quite contrary to the popular conception of progress, with its futuristic pictures of mammoth, unbalanced, complicated masses of city structure, the following statements will seem quite reasonable.
3 As surely as time promotes the cause of individualism, with the progress of life, the living abodes of humans will become more and more decentralized, and mechanicalized (They—industry and homes—are commonly and blindly considered as one). Through progress mechanically or spiritually the original herding instinct of animal man, for the sake of keeping warm, or ignorant mob protection against unknown foes, is being dispersed. It is surely no love for work that fills a New York subway so full that it is necessary to employ muscular guards to literally shove women and men into the cars by placing their feet against the back sides of these so called ‘‘patrons’’ of the subway. It is the drudgery proofness of the city habitat and the pleasures to be found in cities that cause it. Give people homes miles from cities in beautiful places, with much less material dependence than in the dirty, noisy city, and transportation that can get them to city, or country in marvelously short time, and they won’t spend much time in the big city. Particularly will this be evident when we note today little difference in the articles shown in the windows of little towns and great cities alike. The great city, necessary before transportation and distribution, is losing its advantage. It will have lost it all with the advent of the industrially produced home.
4 There is no necessity today for such a vast amount of city or ‘‘white collared’’ workers. The new inventions of office machinery are literally making possible the replacement of millions with far more accurate work as a result. While it is easy for employers, even though, warm hearted, to decrease factory employment, which is entirely manual and has no tie to the employer, other than its material connection, it is very hard for the employer to dismiss the mental associates of his immediate or central office. For this reason millions are still retained in offices, due to the persistence of their presence in cities for the sake of such drudgery proofness as those cities can proffor in comparison to the present home. With proper country home life, the necessity of this uneconomic employment will be eradicated through the introduction of the new home. It will be parried that none can afford homes if they have no work, to which the answer is given that millions are daily learning that small savings properly invested can rapidly attain the proportions of a permanent competence. These investments with truthful application of mechanical shortcuts with resultant high production earning, will the more rapidly attain life income producing power by non-opposition to economic law. It is indeed, worthy of note that more people graduate daily into the class of permanent competence in the United States than was its total population at the time of Washington’s birth. The ever economically more important stock market will eventually replace the political polling booth for registration of public opinion.
5 Peoples will learn that with a few hours of mental effort they can do more work than in a week’s manuel labor, and will learn to capitalize this effort with the resultant reduction of myriad wasteful city activities that daily take place under the guise of business. Waste is unprogressive, such activities are economically criminal. For the few, who in this age of liberal education refuse mental development there will be left watch dog duties, for at least there is some element of faith in all nature.
6 With a clear concept of the line of demarcation between the spiritual and the material: Through isolation of the latter, by means of completely grasping and applying the Fourth, or Time, Dimension of all temporal matter; and with realization that everything material can be completely understood and controlled by the spiritual, and realization that every mechanical function is compassed within our own bodies (leverage hydraulics or all the counter dynamics) it would seem, by sufficiently abstract study of SELF AND ABSTRACT control of self, that we can solve any material problem of this world. Mechanics is but a leverage ‘‘step up’’ or amplification of one or another of these natural bodily functions.
7 The home being the greatest necessity of mankind, it is the most important product yet to be designed for industrial fabrication and distribution to individuals. Presented to industry with comprehensive, and abstract precision and good faith, it will become the most important and fruitful of industries. It cannot overlook the time dimension and be complete. One cannot comprehend the automobile and overlook its time producing unit—the motor.
8 In the research, analysis and design of the New Era Home it is essential that every art known be employed with all the mental adroitness which may be summoned. Particularly is this important at the starting or most powerful control point. Before the house has been industrially launched, is there the opportunity for fine and lasting design which will never be afforded again. When the vested lines of source, assembly, and distribution are set, it will be too late to explore the whole field of mental and abstract perspective.
9 It is only the terrific importance of the subject of the New Home, that warrants the recital here of such abstract and fundamental laws as the following, painfully obvious, yet little observed.
10 We progress through minding our own business and systematic PRACTICE OF RESEARCH, ANALYSIS and DESIGN. All our happiness or hard luck is attributable directly to our own actions. All faults lie within ourselves due to over-emphasis of self importance, self consciousness or selfishness. whichever you wish to call it. Bodily we are alike as so many milk bottles, our individualism lies within our abstract character. It is the spirit which is possessed of the knowledge of good and evil, the power of prognostication lies entirely within our abstract selves. Our only entrance key is through our selves, not others, and complete entrance is conceded only through denial, without selfish reservation whatsoever, of privilege not concedable as best for all.
11 Those in control of this housing project feel that it is essential that anyone participating in the company in any elective capacity, either as investor or mental director of any of its activities must be sympathetically conversant with all of this knowledge, that is why this lengthy discourse has been written. Complete comprehension of it will make possible its compassing in a few words, but at the outset this lengthy discussion is necessary. It is an old subject compassed in a new manner, though in the not distant future the methods of consideration will become common practice in the proper contemplation of industrial activity.
12 There are appended several more chapters of brief notes on the actual construction details, born of the preceding considerations; on some of the business organization phases; as well as some tables of references, etc.
13 Allusion to any names or personalities has been carefully avoided, insofar as pertains to the assembly or organization of the subject matter, as such allusion due to the material instinct of self-conscious curiosity, which demands check up of the material personalities before consideration of the truths revealed through them, must ever be a source of delay in the progress of truth itself.
14 It must be recognized that this method of introduction of the subject is born of altruistic consideration of its value to others.
15 In the light of present market value in the publishing field of such type of disclosure as this (even when lightly touching on already established facts and discounting the publicity value of the novel (disclosures herein contained) is it further hoped that its recipients will value it, and, in kind, return the confidence. It is hoped, however, that they will retain their actual first copy of its introduction, for themselves. Later much of the subject matter indicated therein will be dispensed for publication, and it is hoped for capital return. The very basis of its lasting good must be founded on economic increase in the capital cycle.
16 In the light of our own clear concept of the truth that may be revealed only through faith, and consistent with our quite charitable contempt of the impotency of materialism, and its formula bounded ‘‘Brainistics’’, are we in no way afraid to publish openly, and without reservation, all material formulas, indicative of business plans. Without the good faith that must be the complement of formula, there can be no catching up of, or dangerous competition by, the meddlesome or selfish, if indeed the pure formulist can stop laughing long enough at the divergence from his own self-aggrandized formula to comprehend the presence of a new one. On the other hand, those with proper faith, conceiving the significance of the whole project, openly revealed, will by their very nature be cooperative in its fulfillment.
17 Through protracted isolation for mental research, analysis, and design, truly aided by material self-negation, guided by a vast catalogue of experience, have we leaped ahead (in faith) to the critical ‘‘Bottle neck’’ of progress. Materially acquiring its stewardship through patents, etc. may we at last banish feudalism and the cultivated prosaicness of self-consciousness in every day life. In answer to a constant faith that all has been ordered for the best, even through the long night passages of impenetrable fog and storm, has an opportunity indubitably manifested itself, and been readily grasped for the permanent enshrinement of individualism, truth, and united art, industry, and philosophy.
18 Most materially speaking, the world has been harnessed, through the control of time. During the period of licensed control (that of patents) it will be permanently debunked of ‘‘one track mobism’’ and regenerated into the infinite expansion of harmonized individualism.