Part XVI
4 Darwin had ample historical substantiation of his ‘‘law’’ in the dominant physical characteristics of various tribes and civilizations isolated one from the other by slow or no communication who had had to solve their special survival problems through multi-generations and frustrated milleniums,—by the eventually labelled ‘‘Darwinian’’ process;—suitable to the unique exigencies within each of their special areas of limited gyration.
5 And so in each area according to the environmental conditions of climate, wild life, and material; coloring, odors, and sounds;—and the rate as well as degree of variation;—
6 different characteristics
7 were integrally and extensively inbred,— just as with the long beak birds,—and certain characteristics of specialization were developed for cooperative survival effect;
8 deriving in broad principle from the selective division inherent in the procreative machine unit sub-assembly allocation,—half to a father
9 half to a mother.
10 Big men made good soldiers
11 and swift men good huntsmen—
12 and others good tinkers some preferable King stock and some good buffoons;
13 But for so many environmental reasons did special conditions develop under which deformities were capitalized it must suffice to observe
14 that the special racial and sub-racial characteristics which are now catalogued as Indian, Yellow, Nordic, or what not, were developed primarily through lack of, or very limited degree of, mechanical extensions.
15 They had, of course, stones and swords;—but monkeys also throw coconuts and forage with sticks.
16 But the beginnings of Industrialization did not occur through development by man of longer spears, bigger mugs, or any single ‘‘greater’’ personal idiosyncratic mechanical extension; but by virtue of
17 mechanical extension of a compound nature developed for many people
18 instead of for one
19 to serve, and be simultaneously served by— such as the printing press,
20 to which many eyes, brains, hands and minds are implicit.
21 To all these extensions:—the grinding mills, the cotton fabric mills;—the many peoples’ common needs;—
22 instead of the needs and whimsies of overlords alone;—are also obviously implicit
23 and their realization of satisfaction of these needs also obviously involves
24 cooperative effort and faithful ordering.
25 These mills were early manifestations, of Industrialization’s mutual and mechanical extension but earlier still were sewage and water systems. Cleanliness and orderliness were nearest to godliness they said from generation to generation.
26 However, far earlier »
27 Industrialization sprang originally from the phenomenon of the family, —from its several members their potential abilities and collective needs, which will explain if researched the essential differences between Agriculture and Industrialization.
28 While hunting and subsequent delayed killing of captured and then domesticated animals,—who began to pay for their board and progressively delayed the knifing;—and distant foraging of vegetable foods and their subsequent transplantation to within domestic bounds; —were all,—
29 in their second stage of development to come under
30 the routine production schedule of the home-sprung Industrialization more strictly the underroof domestic activities,
31 Here at home, first in caves, people moved but short distances and performed repetitive operations requiring less of muscle and more of skill that progressively jig invented many mechanical extension niceties whereby even the children could join in the rhythm and the rains and the cold caused no interuption.
32 These domestic arts and crafts
33 were the fore-runners of Industrialization of cotton and grinding mills, —and of the printing press,—which extended the words for the thoughts domestically bom in still concentration, and first articulated in symbols on walls.
34 The outdoor activities while also implemented by
35 mechanical extensions
36 first in the hunt and much later domestically were so subject to hazards of wild life and weather and to astronomical cycles as to perclude any routine activity; or any stored gain, for this was a hand to mouth activity, and though cooperation was desirable even of a dog when skillfully trained it was not essential.
37 Craftiness, craft, intuition, alertness, resourcefulness, and knowledge of the lay of the land and of nature’s reflexes were the desirable and distinctly individual characteristic whether innately or by experience articulated.
38 Industrialization is then by nature a matemalistic development which bound by the womb to the home stored and consolidated and pyramided the gains, from support demanded in contract of mating and this included eventually consolidation of scientific data and method.
39 On the other hand
40 Paternalism is by nature
41 primarily concerned
42 with Industrialization’s protection and far flung supplying;
43 with the animal instinct affairs, with the pack politics,—woman the patron of science man the patron of art women the patrons of justice men the patrons of fight and of course these are only generic proclivities
44 and emotions are now thoroughly cross bred under the aegis of Industrialization.
45 And herein we witness also that Industrialization is an affair apart from war which is in man’s shrewd foraging trading world of animal instincts.
46 And even as Industrialization has grown to encompass agriculture, hunting, mining, and fishing,—so does it promise to terminate war though first implementing it to maddest absurdity.
47 And now in its maturer stages of development, electrical power having made possible cleanliness of industrial environment and elimination of animate engining, women’s hands are again taking over in the advanced industrial applications to radio, aviation, and instrument production; and even to many stages in automobile assembling.
48 And that tactical factor
49 leads us to consideration of
50 another important characteristic
51 of these mutual mechanical extensions
52 which is the obvious fact that
53 their operation could be much expedited,—
54 (and to the expedition
55 the extensions were naturally adoptable),—
56 if power or energy super, or external, to that inherent within man’s integral mechanism,—his personal chemical
57 sun energy conversion abilities,—
58 could be harnessed to provide
59 the effective effort:
60 but though obvious,
61 the objective realization of this harnessing
62 involved all the lifetime
63 of man on this earth
64 until yesterday.
65 While the superior power of other living organisms, such as oxen, camels, captive humans, horses, and trees, was harnessed for this purpose,—inanimate power means was also ‘‘recognized’’ and ‘‘comprehended’’ by life in the same era, and this involved again consideration of degree, for water and wind power when first used by man were already employed as power augmenters by fish and fowl innately.
66 Man had also been meagerly utilizing his discovery of fire-making ability in producing the personal mechanical extensions themselves, that is, metallic swords and armor,—the non-industrial extensions,—but these directly or indirectly were for the overlords only.
67 Thus as gold has been limited in modem times
68 to intrinsic enhancement of a few, in a like manner
69 was fire’s functional development severely limited in its early days of man-manipulated occurence on earth. Both were earlier the mystical properties alone
70 of monarchs, priests, and magicians. Both were symbols of the sun and therefore by intuitive reason symbols of all power and therefore of ‘‘something’’ superior to man and all living things, and thus did they reason forth a God awareness ever since physically, idolatrously exploited.
71 But man’s slow conquest of fire provided another infinite degree of differential characteristic unique to the human,—that of energy control as heat or work,—external to man’s integral energy, which, manifested as heat or as motion, we earlier discovered, was all that was physically lost to the integral mechanism of man when he ‘‘died.’’
72 And so Industrialization grew uniquely as the mutual mechanical scientific extension, comprising precision controls of energy and time.
73 And by Industrialization and its mechanical extension you and I are both mutually and at the same time New York, Grand Coulee Dam, The T.V.A., the Washington, The New York Central, and the Sante Fe,
74 Route U.S.A. 1, from Maine to Key West, the stratosphere liners,—they are our mutual all-age, all-sex, all-race flesh and blood extensions.
75 They are us we are they and those who destroy them or falsely employ them are our enemies and the enemy of our God of the quick,—they who destroy are the proponents of friction, freezing, inertia and death.