War Vies With Magic In

Trend Is Not Destiny.

(the Processes Are) Doubly Ruinous: They Impoverish The Earth By Hastily Removing, For The Benefit Of A Few Generations, The Common Resources Which, Once Expended And Dissipated, Can Never Be Restored; And Second, In Its Technique, Its Habits, Its Processes, The Paleotechnic Period Is Equally Inimical To The Earth Considered As A Human Habitat, By Its Destruction Of The Beauty Of The Landscape, Its Ruining Of Streams, Its Pollution Of Drinking Water, Its Filling The Air With A Finely Divided Carboniferous Deposit, Which Chokes Both Life And Vegetation.

Integration Proceeds By Just The Opposite Route: A Deliberate Heightening Of Every Organic Function; A Release Of Impulses From Circumstances That Irrationally Thwarted Them; Richer And More Complex Patterns Of Activity; An Esthetic Heightening Of Anticipated Realizations; A Steady Lengthening Of The Future; A Faith In Cosmic Perspectives.

Mechanical Instruments, Potentially A Vehicle Of Rational Human Purposes, Are Scarcely A Blessing When They Enable The Gossip Of The Village Idiot And The Deeds Of The Thug To Be Broadcast To A Million People Each Day.

In War, The Army Is Not Merely A Pure Consumer, But A Negative Producer.