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thing better than the best of the past. We're 

 still of that mind. We mean to keep right on, 

 using the past simply as a beginning, and re- 

 garding the future as an invitation which must 

 be accepted. 



You know how pleasing it is to review a 

 creditable performance and say to yourself 

 over it: "Well, there! I've never done that 

 before! I'm advancing!" I'm trying to think 

 how it would feel to change the form and say : 

 "Well, there! Nobody on earth ever did that 

 before!" Before we're through with our work 

 we want to taste that satisfaction. 



For my part, I don't much care what form 

 this achievement may take, if only it's some- 

 thing worth doing. Maybe we'll wind up by 

 growing more corn on an acre of land than has 

 been grown before. That wouldn't be bad. 

 Maybe we'll work out a means of reducing the 

 production cost of one or another of the farm 

 staples. That would be all right with me. 

 Maybe we'll succeed in demonstrating in some 

 new way how far an acre of land may go in 

 furnishing food for us humans. That would be 

 bully! Maybe we'll discover a new wrinkle in 

 the work of restoring vitality to an exhausted 

 soil. That would be going some! Or maybe 



