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a balanced society of men of the highest mind and good 

 will, fully the masters of the machines in a stable, untrou- 

 bled economy that is based on an equable distribution of all 

 that man may then have, and not on the heartless, stupidly 

 wasteful struggle of his earlier economic cannibalism. Free 

 of the anxieties that plagued the long line of his ancestry, 

 this future man possesses the keenest curiosities and the 

 deepest desires to seek out and to know the complex of na- 

 ture and his own place in the scheme. This man will feel, as 

 Bruno and Spinoza did long before him, that truth lies in 

 the discovery of the natural order of the universe and the 

 realization of a properly ordered life in a complete unity 

 of nature and mind— that in the pursuit of knowledge he 

 finds freedom and happiness. 



Such a society of men who have risen to the highest 

 knowledge of the universal unity which is the intellectual 

 equivalent of the love of God is not outside the realm of 

 possibiUty, for scientists in our day know that in the nature 

 of Hf e and man and in universal evolution lies the reality to 

 which they must turn. It is the reality by which, as I see it, 

 mind in matter-energy is to gain the highest possible levels 

 of understanding. Man is already far along the way the 

 process is following, and his science and operational philos- 

 ophy may eventually bring him out onto a new plateau of 

 maturity where he may stand truly erect and unafraid. If 

 he loses these guiding lights, he will slip back once more to 

 the credulous childhood of his race and again tremble be- 

 fore the fearful illusions dancing in the fires that warmed 

 him through an ice age. 



