We should not have needed
for our home a beautiful globe, swinging through endless space,
bathed in sunlight or blessed with the companionship of other
suns and planets whirling with us on mysterious errands.
Man's work of to-day--the fighting, the sweating, the starving,
the cheating and lying, the miserable births and the dull,
stupid, monotonous living--will end soon. Real HUMAN life
will dawn and end the period of savage life.
Control of nature's forces will supply every man with what he
needs to keep his body alive, his soul and his brain free from
care.
Then men will cease their animal lives, cease eating to live and
living to eat. They will live to think. The brain, which
differentiates them from the animals, will give the real interest
to their lives. Mental work--art, science and things worth
while--will occupy them. ----
Does it not seem probable that when the day of organized life
comes our chief interest will be the study of the universe--the
other worlds outside of our own?
The great man will be he whose genius shall cross interstellar
space as Columbus crossed the ocean. The great newspaper editor
will be the first to get a signed statement from Mars.
The discoverer of that day will get from some older planet
information millions of years ahead of our own.
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