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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 2, 1945

ment to all those whom we meet, and those on whom our destinies as individuals or nations depend. It is a necessity while evil exists in the world, and will be unnecessary only when evil is rooted out, and there remain only human faults and errors about which it is indeed desirable to be tolerant. Until that far-off day, we are still engaged in a fight, and we must never forget there is no law of Nature nor of man which assures us victory.

"The issue is in doubt, we must remember, even in the fat years of peace and plenty. Not in vain was it spoken, 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty'.

"The other basic difference in our philosophies is more personal, and therefore less arguable a matter than the first. Each of us agrees that some stabilizing influence is necessary toward (Personal Adequacy) (the integration of the personality) - however you prefer to phrase it. We differ as to what this influence should be, as is perhaps only natural. It is conceivable that there should be a unique solution for each unique personality, the different types of solutions may be easily grouped into broad classes.

"At any rate, while I am moderately sympathetic towards your concept of an inner harmonized world which the disharmonies intruding from outside can never wholly obscure, this solution seems to place a value on the outside world which does not coincide with my own. That is, you underestimate the potential disharmonic forces, and it seems to me you lean too heavily on the assumption that progress must continue. To me, on the contrary, the security which stabilizes my personality cmoes from a profound realization of mankind's utter insignificance (to say nothing of my own inconceivably smaller personal value.) I have faced and acknowledge the possibility that all our lives, our frenzied antics, our clumsy gropings, our noble dreams, our hopeful loves...may be of not the slightest significance whatever, have neither meaning nor purpose, and signify no more in the cosmos than the varies fortunes of the asteroids and planets of this and other suns. Or less, of course. ((I did, too, but reject it.))

"Once having faced this possibility with steady eyes and no fear, I am armored against fate. I do not mean I cannot be hurt or know sorrow: I mean merely that human hurts and sorrows cannot shatter my personality and leave me cowering and afraid; or even helpless and bewildered.

"To illustrate, in times of trouble it is a long standing habit of mine to calm my mind (especially before going to sleep) by imaginarily ascending from my mundane body. I seem to see myself, lying supinely below; then rising through the roof; I look down upon the house, the city, or country, the land as a whole. Rising ever higher the world takes on its globular aspect, and as I retreat towards outer space in my mind's eye, the Terra I know dwindles, becomes a point of light, is lost beside the Sun, then the sun too begins to pale and become no more than a point of light lost in infinity, until it too has vanished utterly from my ken. Then I can truly relax and be wholly at ease,

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ment to all those whom we meet, and those on whom our destinies as individuals or nations depend. It is a necessity while evil exists in the world, and will be unnecessary only when evil is rooted out, and there remain only human faults and errors about which it is indeed desirable to be tolerant. Until that far-off day, we are still engaged in a fight, and we must never forget there is no law of Nature nor of man which assures us victory. "The issue is in doubt, we must remember, even in the fat years of peace and plenty. Not in vain was it spoken, 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty'. "The other basic difference in our philosophies is more personal, and therefore less arguable a matter than the first. Each of us agrees that some stabilizing influence is necessary toward (Personal Adequacy) (the integration of the personality) - however you prefer to phrase it. We differ as to what this influence should be, as is perhaps only natural. It is conceivable that there should be a unique solution for each unique personality, the different types of solutions may be easily grouped into broad classes. "At any rate, while I am moderately sympathetic towards your concept of an inner harmonized world which the disharmonies intruding from outside can never wholly obscure, this solution seems to place a value on the outside world which does not coincide with my own. That is, you underestimate the potential disharmonic forces, and it seems to me you lean too heavily on the assumption that progress must continue. To me, on the contrary, the security which stabilizes my personality cmoes from a profound realization of mankind's utter insignificance (to say nothing of my own inconceivably smaller personal value.) I have faced and acknowledge the possibility that all our lives, our frenzied antics, our clumsy gropings, our noble dreams, our hopeful loves...may be of not the slightest significance whatever, have neither meaning nor purpose, and signify no more in the cosmos than the varies fortunes of the asteroids and planets of this and other suns. Or less, of course. ((I did, too, but reject it.)) "Once having faced this possibility with steady eyes and no fear, I am armored against fate. I do not mean I cannot be hurt or know sorrow: I mean merely that human hurts and sorrows cannot shatter my personality and leave me cowering and afraid; or even helpless and bewildered. "To illustrate, in times of trouble it is a long standing habit of mine to calm my mind (especially before going to sleep) by imaginarily ascending from my mundane body. I seem to see myself, lying supinely below; then rising through the roof; I look down upon the house, the city, or country, the land as a whole. Rising ever higher the world takes on its globular aspect, and as I retreat towards outer space in my mind's eye, the Terra I know dwindles, becomes a point of light, is lost beside the Sun, then the sun too begins to pale and become no more than a point of light lost in infinity, until it too has vanished utterly from my ken. Then I can truly relax and be wholly at ease, 22