Climaxing A Movement For Calendar Reform Which

Not So Many Years Ago There Was No Simpler Or More Intelligible Notion Than That Of Going On A Journey. Travel -movement Through Space -provided The Universal Metaphor For Change. One Of The Subtle Confusions -perhaps One Of The Secret Terrors -of Modern Life Is That We Have Lost This Refuge. No Longer Do We Move Through Space As We Once Did.

History Had Been Man's Effort To Accomodate Himself To What He Could Not Do. Amereican History In The 20th Century Would, More Than Ever Before, Test Man's Ability To Accomodate Himself To All The New Things He Could Do.

The Variety Of Minds Served The Economy Of Nature In Many Ways. The Creator, Who Designed The Human Brain For Activity, Had Insured The Restlessness Of All Minds By Enabling No Single One To Envisage All The Qualities Of The Creation. Since No One By Himself Could Aspire To A Serene Knowledge Of The Whole Truth, All Men Had Been Drawn Into An Active, Exploratory And Cooperative Attitude.

An Enamored Amateur Need Not Be A Genius To Stay Out Of The Ruts He Has Never Been Trained In.

It Is Only A Short Step From Exaggerating What We Can Find In The World To Exaggerating Our Power To Remake The World.