I wish to point out vigorously to you that we are indeed aboard an 8,000-mile-diameter spherical space vehicle.
Humans have high destiny, possibly the most important in the universe.
Humanity on this North American continent is the beginning of a world man. We are not a nation. Nations are tribes of people who have been isolated for a long time and have, of reproductive necessity, inbred—grandfathers with granddaughters—and have adapted themselves to exclusively local physical conditions.
We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.
All the biologicals are converting chaos to beautiful order. All biology is antientropic. Of all the disorder to order converters, the human mind is by far the most impressive. The human’s most powerful metaphysical drive is to understand, to order, to sort out, and rearrange in ever more orderly and understandably constructive ways.
In satisfying humanity’s vital needs, highest social priority must be assigned to the development of world-around common knowledge of what wealth is.
Humanity’s unique function is the mental ability to discover generalized principles and to invent effective ways of employing those principles in rearranging the physical constituents of the scenery to ever greater metabolic regeneration advantage and metaphysical freedom of humanity.
We must realize that technology was not put into the universe by man. The universe is the comprehensive system of technology. Humanity is discovering and beginning to employ it.