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I

F

vou and

1

were discussing the mal–

ter of

what subject

1 should write

about in this month's

Personal,

and you should say, seri'ously,

"Mr. Armstrong, in view of the deadly

seriousness and the

urgency

of this time,

1 think you should write on

the most

urgent problem in al/ our lives

right now

- the question of

whether,

and

how,

we

may survive!"

1 would agree. The one

BtG

QUESTtON

in aU our lives, right now, is that of

human SURVIVAL!

But 1 basten to add, survival

alone

tS

NOT ENOUOH! We must have survival in

PEACI!, in happiness. in joy, in prosperity

and plenty, and in abundant weU-beii¡g

for ALL!

And that's a pretty big order! 1f any–

ooe has !he answer, for the salce of hu–

maoity be'd better spealc out! 1 am

prepared to &ive !he ANSWER - and it is

going

10

be PLAIN SPEAK1NO, witbOUI

puUing any punches! lt's

time

for PLAfN

SPEAJCINO! You are

beuing your lije

on

someooe eoming up, in time, witb !he

right answer!

To get ' to !he

crux

of tbe problem

immediately, realize first tbat these

e~tisting

eonditions aod evils are merely

!he EFFECTI For every effect, there has tQ

be a CAUSE. Our problem of immediate

u.rgency

is

to find the CAUSE, not only of

present evil conditions, but also of what

is tbe not-being-used CAUSE Óf peace,

happiness, and abundantweU-being!

lf we are going to leam that CAUSE,

we need 6rst to ask: Wbat has made

MAN

as he is? How did humanity come

to

be on thls eartb? Or, going back eveo

furtber, how d id tbe

eartb,

itself, come

to

be?

That may seem like going a long way

back. But this futile search for PEACE

goes a long way baclt - as far as bistory

goes - or fartber. Man's trouble$, evils,

and wars extend back to the beginning

- or prior to the beginning - of history.

To find tbe right answer, we need to go

back even to PRJ!-history! That takes us

eveo to tbe question of ORlGtNs - of

B.EGINN!NOS! And we shaU come

lO

the

right answer quidcer by beginning at tbe

beginning!

Many scientists have devoted tl¡eir

lifetimes to researching and studyiog

tbi.~

question. Many scholarly boolcs

bave beco written, seuiog lbrth tbe re–

su lts of these lifetime studies, purporling

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tell the story of !he origin of !he earth

- and of mankind upon it. Yet is it not

significan! that their studies, theories,

and hypotheses

Jailto te// us

WKY roan is

as he is, or HOW he got that way, WHY

man scems always to be befuddled with

unsolvable problerns, WKY be is always

in trouble, WHY humanity is harassed

with

so

many evils, and WKY these evils

are fast increasing?

This is no light mauer. lgnoring hu–

manity's present dilemma wiU not cause

it to go away. Human SVRVIVAL hangs

in the balance! We need !he

righr

an–

swer - and we need it NOw!

And

we can know!

The Origin ofModem &:ience

The fruits of the

speculati~e

assertions

of science have not been peace, h¡tppi–

ncss, universal prosperity, and abundant

weU-being. The world, instead, is

suF–

FERtNO!

lt

is very sick!

To come to a knowledge of tbe RIOHT

ANSWER, we need to understand wbat is

wrong with the scientitic" metbod. WHY

have the 6ndings of modero science NOT

produced peace and universal happi-

. ness? What_ has beeb wrong with tbe

scientific method?

The world has had science, of a ldnd,

for

a

very long time. But what we know

as MODERN SCIENCE began its dramatic

rise roughly 170 years ago. Even then,

tbe new knowJedge in !he fields of

science and technology developed very

slowly at first.

Unt.il this advent of modero science,

tbe world had gone along for tbousands

of years virtuaUy on an even keel - witb

no material prouess to spealc of. It was

primarily an agricultura! world, using

primitive farming metbods. 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 came in

1836.

Abraham Lincoln once explained how

mecbanical and industrial progress

could not develop untit !he invention of

printing, about 1450. Even so, there was

not much development

in

printing until

tbe beginning ofthe 19th century.

Think of it! Through

!hose

long mil–

lennia the world was virtually without

means of transportatioo or communica–

tionl Transportation on land was by

foot, mute, horse, camel, elephant or in

David

Ptkr. S)'daey:

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THI KIY TU HUMAN :SURVIVAl

vehicles drawn by these animals. By sea,

it was by slow-moving sailboat. Fulton

didn't invent !he steamboat until 1803.

And !he telephone, to provide commu–

nication, did not arrive until 1876. The

telephone was in its infancy when 1 was

a boy.

In my own lifetime, we have whipped

past the machine age, the jet age, the

nuclear age, and the space age. Mucb of

the acceleration of inventions was stimu–

lated first by tbe printing press, which

made possible a greater dilfusion of

knowledge and exchange óf ideas, and

then by more rapid means of trans–

portation- tbe steam engine, tbe steam–

boat, !he automobile, the airplane. And

finally, tbe telepbone, telegrapb, radio,

TV.

But what was tbe original impetus?

Scleace to Solve Man's

Problems!

With the emergence of "modern

science» around tbe beginning of the

19th century, scientists assured the

world that man had progressed to the

point where he then could dispense with

the superstitious

c~utch

of religion and

belief in God. Now humanity could rely

on the

new

messiah - Modero Science.

"Given sufficient knowledge," said the

scientists, "we shaU solve aU of human–

ity's problems and cure aU !be world's

ills."

To replace religion and belief in Ood,

scienlists and educators had substituted

' the doctrine of evolution. The tools

Modero Science used in tbe production

of this new KNOWLEDGE were a stepped–

up use of those man had employed since

the dawn of history - rejection of reve–

lation as a

$0UTCC

of lcnowledge and !he

use of observation, experimentat.ion,

and human reason.

So !he production of JCNOWLEDOE in–

creased at a constantly accelerating

pace. The world's total fund of knowl–

edge virtuaUy

doubled

in the one decade

of the 1960's!

But, paradoxicaUy, as knowledge has

increased,

so have humanicy's

problems,

troubles and evils, at almost an equal

rate of acceleration!

What's wrong wilh the dictum that

knowledge is tbe sote need for solutions?

We are faceto face with !be stem FACT

tbat increasing evils have escalated

alongside increasing knowledge! That

is

not to say that the increased knowledge

caused

!be growing evils. lt does mean

that the knowledge produced

did not

cure

existing evils,

or preven/ new evils!

The ANSWER becomes plain. There

was

something wrong

witb the knowl–

edge being produced, or else !be oeeded

MISSINO DIMENSION in lcnowledge was

not being diseovered.

To the dictum of science that given

sufficient knowledge, mankind's prob–

lems would be solved aod humanity's

ills cured,

1

add this: Solutions come

from the

right

knowledge that supplies

the

right

answer - tbe true CAUSE of

both the evils and !he CAUSE that would

produce peace and joy and every

oooo

result; and, secondly, solutioos come

from !he application of that knowledge.

For

1

have always said that knowledge

is of value only lo tbe extent tbat it is

usedl

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