I Write To Discover What I Think.

While The Jeffersonian Did Not Flatly Deny The Creator's Power To Perform Miracles, He Admired His Refusal To Do So.

The Improved American Highway System Isolated The American-in-transit. On His Speedway He Had No Contact With The Towns Which He By-passed. If He Stopped For Food Or Gas, He Was Served No Local Fare Or Local Fuel, But Had One Of Howard Johnson's Nationally Branded Ice Cream Flavors, And So Many Gallons Of Exxon. This Vast Ocean Of Superhighways Was Nearly As Free Of Culture As The Sea Traversed By The Mayflower Pilgrims.

The Most Important Lesson Of American History Is The Promise Of The Unexpected. None Of Our Ancestors Would Have Imagined Settling Way Over Here On This Unknown Continent. So We Must Continue To Have Society That Is Hospitable To The Unexpected, Which Allows Possibilities To Develop Beyond Our Own Imaginings.

The Mind Is A Vagrant Thing ... Thinking Is Not Analogous To A Person Working In A Laboratory Who Invents Something On Company Time. Answering Criticism That The Book For Which He Won A Pulitzer Prize Was Written In The Years He Had Been Employed At The Smithsonian. He Specified That Did Not Write On The Premises There, But Only At Home Outside Of Working Hours.

The American Experience Stirred Mankind From Discovery To Exploration. From The Cautious Quest For What They Knew (or Thought They Knew) Was Out There, Into An Enthusiastic Reaching To The Unknown. These Are Two Substantially Different Kinds Of Human Enterprise.