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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 2, 1945
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there. ((Thanks to letters like yours, I can. -- EEE)). "I think the physical format can be improved. It's a pretty stiff dose to swallow 25 pages of single-spaced reading matter. One's attention may wander, his patience require a rest, and his time suffer from competition. Quite in a desire to be helpful, I suggest, therefore, that you make use of devices now common in newspapers of breaking up paragraphs with more center headings. Try running paragraphs of different widths. Underline some paragraphs; capitalize the first few words of some; use all capitals for some short ones. Use any such devices that will give them a little fillip to the attention of the reader. And they may also help you to crystallize your thoughts into transparence more easily." ((Is this issue better? -- EEE)). LOUIS RUSSELL CHAUVENET. "This publication was a pleasant surprise to me, and I am in considerable sympathy with the aims behind it. The successful integration of the personality (a phrase I like a little more than 'Personal Adequacy') is naturally of vital importance not merely to the individual who cannot be otherwise well adjusted, but also to the society he lives in, since society is after all composed of numerable human beings. "There is much in your comments with which I am in at least general sympathy that I feel a little apologetic about advancing the criticisms which have occurred to me on various points. Nevertheless I believe that there are two basic differences between our views, and perhaps the discussion of these differences may not be wholly sterile. ((I think we've both gained. -- EEE)). "The first of these differences is that while my faith in the future of mankind is high, it is a faith in a potential future. I do not share what I believe to be your illusion that progress is a necessity or that destiny or any other force is necessarily driving us along the 'Road' to some 'Higher goal'. In other words I doubt the inevitability of progress, and hold it quite possible that man's strivings may end in disaster rather than Utopia. Because I take this attitude, I am acutely aware of the need of throwing everything possible into the fight to realize the potentialities of the future. Apparently from your angle, the issue is more or less settled, all we have to do is stay in there pitching, continued slow improvement is inevitable, the millennium comes slowly but it is bound to come. "This makes for a contented frame of mind, if I read your philosophy rightly, since the individual can feel he is a part of a successful movement with ancient and lowly origins, a long tradition of struggle upwards, and a certain, glorious future to come. This gives he individual what his nature most craves, a secure niche in the scheme of things. He knows whence he came 20
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there. ((Thanks to letters like yours, I can. -- EEE)). "I think the physical format can be improved. It's a pretty stiff dose to swallow 25 pages of single-spaced reading matter. One's attention may wander, his patience require a rest, and his time suffer from competition. Quite in a desire to be helpful, I suggest, therefore, that you make use of devices now common in newspapers of breaking up paragraphs with more center headings. Try running paragraphs of different widths. Underline some paragraphs; capitalize the first few words of some; use all capitals for some short ones. Use any such devices that will give them a little fillip to the attention of the reader. And they may also help you to crystallize your thoughts into transparence more easily." ((Is this issue better? -- EEE)). LOUIS RUSSELL CHAUVENET. "This publication was a pleasant surprise to me, and I am in considerable sympathy with the aims behind it. The successful integration of the personality (a phrase I like a little more than 'Personal Adequacy') is naturally of vital importance not merely to the individual who cannot be otherwise well adjusted, but also to the society he lives in, since society is after all composed of numerable human beings. "There is much in your comments with which I am in at least general sympathy that I feel a little apologetic about advancing the criticisms which have occurred to me on various points. Nevertheless I believe that there are two basic differences between our views, and perhaps the discussion of these differences may not be wholly sterile. ((I think we've both gained. -- EEE)). "The first of these differences is that while my faith in the future of mankind is high, it is a faith in a potential future. I do not share what I believe to be your illusion that progress is a necessity or that destiny or any other force is necessarily driving us along the 'Road' to some 'Higher goal'. In other words I doubt the inevitability of progress, and hold it quite possible that man's strivings may end in disaster rather than Utopia. Because I take this attitude, I am acutely aware of the need of throwing everything possible into the fight to realize the potentialities of the future. Apparently from your angle, the issue is more or less settled, all we have to do is stay in there pitching, continued slow improvement is inevitable, the millennium comes slowly but it is bound to come. "This makes for a contented frame of mind, if I read your philosophy rightly, since the individual can feel he is a part of a successful movement with ancient and lowly origins, a long tradition of struggle upwards, and a certain, glorious future to come. This gives he individual what his nature most craves, a secure niche in the scheme of things. He knows whence he came 20
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