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TheKey
to
SURVIVAL!
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
The one
BIG QUESTION
in all our lives, right now, 1s that of human
SURVIVAL!
T
HE MOST
urgent prob–
lem right now is the
question of
whether,
and
how,
we may sur–
vive!
But
survival
alone
is NOT
ENOUGH! We m ust have survival
in PEACE, in happiness, in joy, in
prosperity and plenty, and in
abundant well-being for ALL!
And that's a big order!
If
anyone
has the answer, for the sake of
humanity he'd better speak out! 1
am prepared to give the ANSWER–
and
Ít ÍS
going to be PLAIN SPEAK–
ING, without pulling any punches!
lt's
time
for PLAIN SPEAKING! You
are
betting your lije
on someone to
come up, in time, with the right
answer!
To get to the crux of the problem
immediately, realize first tbat these
existing conditions and evils are
merely the EFFECT! For every
effect, there has to be a CAUSE. Our
problem of immediate urgency is to
find the CAUSE, not only of present
evil conditions, but also of what is
the not-being-used CAUSE of peace,
happiness and abundant well–
being!
If we are going to learn that
CAUSE, we need first to ask: What
has made MAN as he is? How did
humanity cometo be on this earth?
Or, going back even further, how
did the earth, itself, come to
be?
That may seem like going a long
way back. But humanity's futile
search for PEACE goes a long way
May 1985
back-as far as history goes-or
further. Man's troubles, evils and
wars extend back to the begin–
ning-or prior to the beginning–
of history. To fi nd the right answer,
we need to go back even to prehis–
tory! That takes us even to the
question of ORIGINS- OF BEGIN–
NINGS! And we shall come to the
right answer more quickly by
beginning at the beginning!
Many scientists have devoted
their lifetimes to researching and
studying this question. Many schol–
arly books have been written set–
ting forth the results of these life–
time studies, purporting to tell the
story of the origin of the earth and
of mankind upon it. Yet is it not
significant that their studies, theo–
ries and hypotheses
fail to tell us
WHYroan is as he is, or HOW he got
that way, WHY roan seems always
to be befuddled with unsolvable
problems, WHY he is always in
trouble, WHY humanity is harassed
with so many evils, and WHY these
evils are fast increasing?
This is no light matter. Ignoring
humanity's present dilemma will
not cause it to go away. Human
SURVIVAL hangs in the balance! We
need the
right
answer-and we
need it NOw!
And
we can know!
The fruits of the speculative
assertions of science have not been
peace, happiness, universal prosper–
ity and abundant well-being. The
world, instead, is SUFFERING! Jt
ÍS
very sick!
To come to a knowledge of the
RIGHT ANSWER, we need to under–
stand what is wrong with the
scientific method. WHY have the
findings of modero science NOT
produced peace and universal hap–
piness? What has been wrong with
the scientific metbod?
The Beginning of Modern Science
The world has had science, of a
kind, for a very long time. But what
we know as MODERN SCl ENCE
began its dramatic rise roughly 175
years ago. Even then, tbe new
knowledge in the fields of science
and tecbnology developed very
slowly at first.
Until this advent of modero
science, the world had gone along
for thousands of years virtual l_y on
an even keel- witb no material
progress to speak of.
lt
was pri–
marily an agricultura! world, using
primitive farming methods. The
cast-iron plow was not invented
until 1797. The disc plow was not
invented until 1896, when 1 myself
was alive and a growing boy! The
first harvester carne in 1836.
President Abraham Lincoln once
explained how mechanical and
industrial progress could not have
developed until the invention of
printing, about 1450 by Johann
Gutenberg in Germany. Even so,
there was not much development in
printing until the beginning of the
19th century. Then, German inven–
tors emigrated to Great Britain to
patent their inventions in paper–
making and the rotary press, which
imrnensely increased productivity
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