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Agencies are like that, too. You put a group together and say, “You 
are HEW.” But if you go to a particular section of HEW and ask 
what they are, they will give you the name of a particular agency, 
although to all we said, “You are HEW.” By international law, we 
told those Indians on the Amazon, “You are Peruvians.” However, 
if they don’t act like it, if there is nothing that makes them a vital 
part of the nation, that means they haven’t shaped up yet and they 
haven’t either shaken down or shaped up, but the opportunity is there 
for them to be a nation. 
They are given recognition as if they were, so there is every impetus 
for them to start acting like they were. It would seem to me when you 
make a law you have got to recognize that there are these limitations. 
Within these limitations there are opportunities, but they will or will 
not come on line quickly depending on how much real vitality there 
is in the kind of structure that you lay on it. 
THE NEED FOR- VISION 
We have to make assumptions in the law. Lots of times the assump- 
tions we make are based upon things already proven untrue. I think, 
for instance, in Oliver Twist, remember that delicious line when Mr. 
Bumble is being brought before the authorities? He points out it was 
his wife that was running that orphanage illegally, and the judge 
tells him, well, the law, Mr. Bumble, says that as you were the husband, 
you have dominion over the wife and it is assumed that you have 
complete control over her activities. Therefore you are responsible 
for them. He said, “Sir, if the law assumes that, the law is an ass.” 
Well, we assume sometimes that because we put somebody in charge 
of the agency that they have really dominion and authority over an 
activity within a substructure that sometimes is not demonstrably 
true, but the law assumes that and it has to assume that, and if that 
relationship doesn’t prove out, we have got to make it prove out or 
change the basic assumption. 
The other thing I think we can take a lesson from, you have got to 
get momentum to initiate a move, and that is based upon, usually, a 
romantic idea, because romanticism is what really moves people. I 
think about the history of my own State. The people came to Cali- 
fornia in the gold rush and the gold has been the least of the contribu- 
tion of the ‘State of California to the history of the Nation. Many of 
the people who went to California with the fire of the gold never were 
greatly disappointed because they didn’t find nugget one. In fact, they 
got kicked around quite a bit until they decided there is a heck of a 
lot more here than just delving after the nuggets. 
It seems to me if we go into the sea the way the people have under- 
taken any great adventure, that we will find tremendous potentials 
beyond the thing that initiates the momentum. There is plenty there 
that will have a continuum for the momentum, and we must remember 
that out of our history. 
Sure, it took the gold rush to get the people moving West, but what 
they ultimately did when they got there was not dig for gold but to 
bring water to the land, and the agriculture that came out of Cali- 
fornia far surpassed in wealth what was ever dug out in gold. They 
realized that there has been far more in the environment that was 
