I Have Seen The Science I Worshiped,

Aviation Has Struck A Delicately Balanced World, A World Where Stability Was Already Giving Way To The Pressure Of New Dynamic Forces, A World Dominated By A Mechanical, Materialist, Western European Civilization.

Aviation Seems Almost A Gift From Heaven To Those Western Nations Who Were Already The Leaders Of Their Era, Strengthening Their Leadership, Their Confidence, Their Dominance Over Other Peoples.

We Can So Reconstruct Society That It Will Be Self-perpetuating Instead Of As Now, Self-exhaustive.

I May Be Flying A Complicated Airplane, Rushing Through Space, But In This Cabin I'm Surrounded By Simplicity And Thoughts Set Free Of Time. How Detached The Intimate Things Around Me Seem From The Great World Down Below. How Strange Is This Combination Of Proximity And Separation. That Ground - Seconds Away - Thousands Of Miles Away. This Air, Stirring Mildly Around Me. That Air, Rushing By With The Speed Of A Tornado, An Inch Beyond. These Minute Details In My Cockpit. The Grandeur Of The World Outside. The Nearness Of Death. The Longness Of Life.

When The President Signs This Act, The Invisible Government By The Money Power Will Be Legalized.