Part XXII
4 And the only difference between the face of the earth today and millions of years ago when all the elements also existed, but as seemingly static resources, is the harnessing of energy external to man by man and man’s mind-and-brain conducted marriage of energy and matter in the cathedral of time.
5 Man intuitively aware of the social significance of these cumulative events abolished slavery, soon after the coming of steam, precisely at the time of the invention of production steel and the Dynamo in 1858 and 1860, respectively.
6 Though slavery was no longer ‘‘legal’’ throughout both the British Empire and the United States of America, that recognition was no more than a legal discount of the future;—for only today is abolition becoming even theoretically possible of fulfilment in a realistic way. Anywhere in the world.
7 And that potential abolition is solely by virtue of the doings of science and industry, and not by law or other purposed forward contribution or reform of any department of political economy;—nor of the most munificent private philanthropy; nor again of the sagacity of papal encyclical, nor of the ambitious beneficence of any dictator.
8 The fact of the matter is that you just cannot create a potato, a baby, a book, or bicycle by legislation, demand, command, pronouncement, promise,—by endowment, or loan,—by subscription of money.
9 It is axiomatic
10 that work cannot be abolished at all;
11 (and certainly not by spoken or written words). Work’s burden, however, can be shifted in all its gross physical requirements to the ‘‘shoulders’’ of inanimate mechanics.
12 And this shift science has already attended to in the U.S.A, to a large extent elsewhere in lesser degree by free inspiration and will, though people keep right on going through their slave paces.
13 Active industrialization being but three long generations old, men’s habits of thousands of millions of years are not to be scrapped with the degree or the facility demonstrated in scrapping a Mauretania, to rework the materials overnight into a better Mauretania.
14 And as people have been in fact slaves by necessity throughout all time until yesterday and are still so as a majority, (even though now potentially emancipated, from a factual scientific viewpoint), they are still struggling
15 under a virulent slave complex particularly placed in evidence when they become nouveaux riches and become a flamboyant boss slave chained still more heavily to the most asinine customs.
16 Only the young bom into the new mechanics find the complex strange and its economics intolerable.
17 No!—generally speaking even the most liberal realists are still overshadowed by Darwin and his less than century old theory of survival only of the fittest.
18 Therefore the Realists fail to envisage the far greater economy involved in the basically changed Darwinian concept inherent in the great mutual mechanical extensions of Industrialization to which it is axiomatic that survival for all is at once both the inspirational charge and the least costly procedure of the continuance of its phenomenon;—more,—that the better the survival standards the less costly to one and all;
19 ergo, the more surplus wealth of environment unspent and infinitely unspendable
20 though enjoyment in living continuously increases, Unfortunately this has sounded so idealistic that man has reserved it for Sunday thinking thus missing its simple scientific practicality.
21 The ‘‘fittest’’ phenomenon
22 is still valid
23 but specifically and only
24 in the abstract categories
25 of management, research, and pioneering risk, and no longer as we have seen
26 in the matter
27 of security through inertia,
28 of physical peculiarities,
29 inbred deformities,
30 or brute strength.
31 Might no longer makes right all propaganda to the contrary.
32 The new-day abstract fittest shall attain
33 to the super fruits
34 of the advancing standards
35 of living satisfactions super to survival, in direct proportion to their contributions to the group mechanical extensions
36 of timing and coordination created out of the mind through the brain which certify ever improving survival for all.