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The Forces Of Hannibal, Drake And Napoleon Moved At Best With The Horses' Gallop Or The Speed Of Wind On Sail. Now, Aviation Brings A New Concept Of Time And Distance To The Affairs Of Men. It Demands Adaptability To Change, Places A Premium On Quickness Of Thought And Speed Of Action.

To Be A True Progressive It Is Not Sufficient To Stand Up And Say That One Belives In What Has Been Promulgated As Progressive Principles. One Must Be Progressive In Heart And Active In Promoting The Progressive Principles Of Today, Tomorrow And Always. There Is No Resting Point, For Humanity Is Ever Ascending To A Higher And Better Goal.

True, The Fragile Bodies Of His Fellows Do Not Weigh Down His Plane; True, The Fretful Minds Of Weaker Men Are Missing From His Crowded Cabin; But As His Airship Keeps Its Course He Holds Communion With Those Rare Spirits That Inspire To Intrepidity And By Their Sustaining Potency Give Strength To Arm, Resource To Mind, Content To Soul. Alone? With What Other Companions Would Man Fly To Whom The Choice Were Given?

I Believe That For Permanent Survival, Man Must Balance Science With Other Qualities Of Life, Qualities Of Body And Spirit As Well As Those Of Mind - Qualities He Cannot Develop When He Lets Mechanics And Luxury Insulate Him Too Greatly From The Earth To Which He Was Born.

If We Can Combine Our Knowledge Of Science With The Wisdom Of Wildness, If We Can Nurture Civilization Through Roots In The Primitive, Man's Potentialities Appear To Be Unbounded, Through This Evolving Awareness, And His Awareness Of That Awareness, He Can Emerge With The Miraculous-to Which We Can Attach What Better Name Than 'god'? And In This Merging, As Long Sensed By Intuition But Still Only Vaguely Perceived By Rationality, Experience May Travel Without Need For Accompanying Life.