Part XXVII

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4 But a religion posits a direction towards perfection of its intuitively sensed social trend forces and omniscience.

5 Such an assumed willy-nilly articulation of an overriding force would be any event in an industrial society which frustrates arbitrary attempts to stay the omnipotent hand, of its socially composite ‘‘holy ghost’’ trending whether such frustrating attempts be of political, cultural, business or gangster enactment.

6 For contemporary example, we find such a frustration in the attempt on the part of the New Deal to curtail ‘‘surpluses’’ of agriculture.

7 Secretary Wallace prevailed upon the U.S. fanner to reduce his acreage by 3!4% in 1938.

8 Though the curtailment was contracted for and carried out in all good faith on the part of the fanner and the acreage was actually reduced the crop of that year willy-nillied an 11% increase.

9 Strafing Wallace as did the tide King Canute, this ‘‘more for less’’ per acre characteristic of Industrialization,—unpremeditatedly occurring on society’s part,—articulated itself not as a miracle but through the unexpected effects of improved chemistry and implements and ways of doing, bom of ever improving and integrating popular knowledge.

10 This commonwealth amplifying trend demonstrated in agriculture as the willy-nilly compounding increment of science posits not only the certain socialization of quantity agriculture throughout the world in the very near future, but also the ultimate reduction of acreage to ‘‘tank’’ dimensions with many times increased production; subject to qualitative high-earning competitive pioneering as well as quantitative scientific control despite all manner of initial political and financial shenanigans. For the dimensions involved will allow of agriculture’s enclosure under the industrial roof, which ended for man his complete subservience to the elements and time.

11 Under the industrial roof there is no distinction of seasons or of night and day.

12 Time is harnessed.

13 And through air conditioning the controlled environment mechanical extension of man Industrialization may widen its originally limited geographical thermal zone around the world’s 32° F. isotherm—the freezing line to the equator and to the poles.

14 Industrialization took roots in the U.S.A, precisely within the most favorable thermal zone to stimulate its growth,—that is, in New England where with extreme seasonal variations, if man wished to work at all he had to do so under cover much of the time.

15 And he did wish to—fanatically.

16 Work as we have already said was part of the budding new religion, and the right and cooperative duty and delight of the individual to work were axiomatic.

17 This work fanaticism was not however germane to the out-of-door South.

18 This industrial work religion was exquisitely involved in the U.S.A.’s Civil War in which the fate of its and the world’s future was decided.

19 The question was whether the U.S.A, was to escape its economic dominance by a feudal and non-scientific agriculture, and its concomitant animate slavery—that dominance to be replaced by Industrialization and its eventually concomitant inanimate slave?

20 The cathedrals of the new religion bom in the North are to be found now stretching across the country in the magnificent horizontal and vertical lines of its highways, bridges, rails, dams, power houses, factories, silos, ore bins, and skyscrapers, whose unwitting architectural innovations inspired Europe superficially through amazed perspective upon its new forms and surfaces to establish it as a modem ‘‘order,’’ portendingly but inadequately titled ‘‘International.’’

21 That the Puritan stock seeking a new liberty of belief that would conform universally with experience and individual rationality, should have evolved successively: Unitarianism and Christian Science, in the 1850--1890, and 1890--1920 periods, respectively, is indicative of the Puritans’ tacit conception of the portending new unspoken religion—Industrialization.

22 For it would seem that Industrialization embodies the dynamic characteristics which though then unattaining, they sought. Recognition of this concept also completely explodes the bewildered charges of the older pragmatic religions of horrific increase in atheism in the U.S.A.

23 Why should the U.S.A, subscribe to formalization of this new belief, which no longer needs specious dogma nor belief in lieu of realization.

24 This is immediate.

25 And it works, if not completely, only because it has not attained full growth and transformation of the way of living.

26 Yes,—it is real.

27 This religion, U.S.A, man knows, may not be long exploited any more than it may be stayed. For he knows it works only in the direction of universal welfare instead of for perpetuation of the idiosyncrasies or pathologies of arrested development in any one individual.

28 Industry will give any one a ride who wants a ride, but it won’t stand still except through race suicide.

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30 can chuckle at the thought of anyone’s setting hand upon a 100,000-volt power line.

31 While this religion has no priests, and no blindly believing as we have pointed out, its cathedrals have sextons—great bumble-bee industrialists who have kept the premises in constant retool-up honey-hunting is all that is necessary on their part, for Industrialization’s dynamics are self re-pollenizing.

32 Conceived of as a religion, Industrialization self-explains the U.S.A.’s avid necessity for the news, and its quick reactions of push and pull ratchetry of the continuous events which tend to accelerate its overall growth—we have named that push pulling phenomenon—‘‘Democracy.’’