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Show ftlEN, KNOW YE THE TRUTH! If we do not make the peace this time, here is what will come to pass. "The destructive power of electronics, the lethal resources re-sources of modern chemistry, have scarcely been tapped. Within a decade or less they will be ready to visit horror on man in new and almost unimagined forms. The splitting of the atom, already achieved in the laboratory, will release colossal energy to further enhance wholesale annihilation. '; War will become a gigantic clash of mighty technological monsters, striking from the heart of one nation directly at the heart of another, perhaps half way around the world, with a fury and destructiveness that will make all past conflicts con-flicts including World War II seem trivial by contrast. The aim will be total annihilation. Therefore I say that we simply cannot aford to be lazy or cynical about peace plans if we want to survive if we want our children to survive." Poor, puny man, everywhere in rebellion, everywhere out of harmony, everywhere divided and mired in war, poverty, I ignorance and misery. Just think what would happen if nature turned crazy like man. Destiny Magazine directs readers read-ers to ponder what would happen if the sun rebelled, if the stars went out of their courses and the moon failed the earth; if the flowers and the grass and the fruits and grains should disobey the law of their being; if they, like humans, should fight each other, kill each other, and contend among themselves for food to sustain life. All the universe would become paralyzed and life die out. "Wonder," says the magazine, maga-zine, "if the Most High will suffer much longer one element, rebellious man, to remain the one blot, the one miserable J exception, the one discord in the majestic order of the "mi-verse." "mi-verse." " "' "The capitalist class has managed society, and its management man-agement has failed ignobly, deplorably, horribly. The capitalist class had an opportunity which was vouchsafed no other class in the world. It mastered matter, organized the machinery , of life and might have made, possible a wonderful era for , mankind in which no creature could cry aloud because it had not enough to eat and wherein there would have been every opportunity ,for spirit uplifting. Here was the God-given chance, and the capitalist failed. Jack London. |
