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Science fiction does NOT come after the fact of a scientific discovery or development. It is the herald of possibility. It is the plea that someone should work on the future. Yet it is not prophecy. It is the dream that precedes the dawn when the inventor or scientist awakens and goes to his books or his lab saying, “I wonder whether I could make that dream come true in the world of real science.”
One god, ‘Bank,’ seems to have been more general in worship.
While they could agree to a long-shot objective with their minds, they rose to the rescue of Chrissie with their hearts.
Jonnie had heard quite enough about Hitlers and Napoleons and such. He had often wondered whether—if such vermin had not been so intent on personally ruling the world—man might have had the cultural advancement to repel the Psychlo invasion.
He was amazed what people could do if you let them just get at it, without a lot of government restricting them.
“The power of money and gold over the souls of men passes all wondering.”
The future is the only frontier without limit and the frontier that we will all enter and cross no matter what we do.
Get a person to believe they have worth and you will see them come alive because most people today have become convinced that their lives are worthless or without purpose. Give a person purpose and worth and you give them life and future.
When you understand the source of aberration, when you understand the game, when you can regain your worth and purpose, you have gained more than the world, you have gained the stars and beyond.
