Part XIX
4 This whole phenomenon of realized Industrialization, arriving ‘‘overnight’’ so to speak—or more accurately in the last three generations, after millions upon millions of man generations and unknown quadrillions of life cell generations, was founded of course on many millennium spanning fore-runner developments of and by man. And the specific forerunners of Industrialization were all history’s scientific and technologic events.
5 But scientific events are continuing events,—that is they discover for man the identity of natural forces and processes which are always there in nature whether discovered by man or not, but which, once discovered, and the behavior pattern accurately charted and described, (such as the phenomenon the ‘‘law’’ of gravity) constitute continuing knowledge.
6 Therefore scientific events are cumulative as common wealth which cannot be basically dissipated.
7 Obviously, scientific events are also compoundingly interactive, and,—the unexpected gains of the interaction represent the increments of science and technology, which as we remarked earlier are automatically reinvestable only in further Industrialization whose end increment in turn is represented by an advance in the whole frontier of the standard of living.
8 Scientific events differ from the cyclic phenomena of days and nights and seasons and tides which just come and go,
9 and are of the substance of the cake which you cannot both ‘‘have and eat.’’
10 Yet these cycles have been more impressive to economists due to their sensorially vivid tradition than the ephemeral scientific accnmnlation which the cycles have sensorially out-loomed. Wherefore the economist’s professed art of industrial interpretation has been based dominantly upon agriculture fluctuations rather than upon scientific consolidations.
11 Because of this counter-dynamic trend error the scientific consolidations have chaotically disrupted both the thinking and the prognosticating of the professors, who should have gradually shifted the dominance of the first to the second in synchronization with the factual events,—adequately reported and artibtrarily non-included by the economics professors,—of the absolutely new and continuously amplifying Industrialization.
12 These factual industry multiplying, truly scientific, technical events of our so far known all-history continuity of overlapping civilizations number, however to 1940,—not much over ten thousand master key items.