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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 1, 1944
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Yes, Man has been advancing along the Road, in spite of all the detours and wash-outs he has faced. He has advanced, simply because there is something in Man -- something gloriously big and splendid -- that has led him to smooth out the detours and pave them; that has helped him to bridge the unbridgeable chasms, and to tunnel the uncrossable mountains. I want to quote a paragraph from one of Dr. Lloyd C. Douglas' books, his "Green Light", which depicts this Road far better than I could ever do it. (And, by the way, any of you really interested in this subject of Time-Binding, should read that book -- it is one of the finest expositions of the matter I have ever chanced to find.) Dr. Douglas says, through the agency of his character, Dean Harcourt: "Sometimes it is helpful to attempt a mental reconstitution of that highway from the very beginning and trace it forward through human history. Endless procession. On foot, at first -- barefoot; then sandal-shod; then on muleback. Clumsy wooden sledges, sledges with rounded runners, sledges on rollers. rude carts on heavy wheels, drawn by ropes. Better carts with lighter wheels drawn by horses. Accelerated speed. Reduction of drudgery. Motors!....Every little while a radical change in methods, manners, moros, mechanisms -- but the same old procession! Ah -- but it has passed through a lot of discomfort to come so far! When I review it, I know that nothing could possibly happen to me which hasn't happened to others -- thousands of times before -- and immeasurably more severe. I'm rather proud in that old parade, my friend! It has travelled a long way -- up -- out of the wilderness." Doesn't that make you see the grandeur of Man's journey from the jungle to the "City of Light"? Doesn't it make your shoulders just a little bit straighter; your eyes a little brighter, and your jaw just a little more determined that YOU will travel your mile in that parade in a way that will not shame the billions who have proceeded you, nor the billions that are yet to follow? A little later on this Dean Harcourt makes analytical statement which, I think, has caught the thing in Man which makes him unique among all other animals. Not just his flexible, thumb-and-fingers-opposed hands; not just his greater brain power; not even entirely his memory, which so helps him make future plans based on the lessons of the past. No, as Harcourt says: 5
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Yes, Man has been advancing along the Road, in spite of all the detours and wash-outs he has faced. He has advanced, simply because there is something in Man -- something gloriously big and splendid -- that has led him to smooth out the detours and pave them; that has helped him to bridge the unbridgeable chasms, and to tunnel the uncrossable mountains. I want to quote a paragraph from one of Dr. Lloyd C. Douglas' books, his "Green Light", which depicts this Road far better than I could ever do it. (And, by the way, any of you really interested in this subject of Time-Binding, should read that book -- it is one of the finest expositions of the matter I have ever chanced to find.) Dr. Douglas says, through the agency of his character, Dean Harcourt: "Sometimes it is helpful to attempt a mental reconstitution of that highway from the very beginning and trace it forward through human history. Endless procession. On foot, at first -- barefoot; then sandal-shod; then on muleback. Clumsy wooden sledges, sledges with rounded runners, sledges on rollers. rude carts on heavy wheels, drawn by ropes. Better carts with lighter wheels drawn by horses. Accelerated speed. Reduction of drudgery. Motors!....Every little while a radical change in methods, manners, moros, mechanisms -- but the same old procession! Ah -- but it has passed through a lot of discomfort to come so far! When I review it, I know that nothing could possibly happen to me which hasn't happened to others -- thousands of times before -- and immeasurably more severe. I'm rather proud in that old parade, my friend! It has travelled a long way -- up -- out of the wilderness." Doesn't that make you see the grandeur of Man's journey from the jungle to the "City of Light"? Doesn't it make your shoulders just a little bit straighter; your eyes a little brighter, and your jaw just a little more determined that YOU will travel your mile in that parade in a way that will not shame the billions who have proceeded you, nor the billions that are yet to follow? A little later on this Dean Harcourt makes analytical statement which, I think, has caught the thing in Man which makes him unique among all other animals. Not just his flexible, thumb-and-fingers-opposed hands; not just his greater brain power; not even entirely his memory, which so helps him make future plans based on the lessons of the past. No, as Harcourt says: 5
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