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December 7, 1990
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EMAGWEAP.ASC
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NON-LINEAR ELECTROMAGNETIC EFFECTS WEAPONS:
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IN THE CONTEXT OF SCIENCE & ECONOMY
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by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
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Milan, Dec. 1, 1987
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(written version--may diverge from delivered address)
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CONFERENCE NOTE: Sixty-five-year-old economist LYNDON H. LA
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ROUCHE, JR. is a candidate for the 1988
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presidential nomination of the Democratic Party
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(U.S.A.).
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He is best known in military science for his
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leading international role, during 1982 and early
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1983, in proposing a western global strategic
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ballistic missile defense based upon "new physical
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principles."
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During the past two years, there has been increasing attention
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to the imminently dominant role of new types of electromagnetic-
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pulse weapons as strategic and tactical assault weapons of general
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warfare.
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Unfortunately, most of this discussion has been listed under
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the somewhat misleading title of "radio-frequency weapons," a name
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carried over from earlier years discussions of more primitive forms
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of electronic warfare.
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One of our greatest difficulties in explaining these new
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dimensions of warfare, is the popularity of the old opinion, that
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microwaves might impair or destroy living tissues by inductive
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heating.
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Unquestionably, microwaves can do this, but we are speaking of
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lethal and other special effects achieved by a deposit of energy on
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target even several orders of magnitude less than required to cook
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that tissue to death.
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The new class of electromagnetic-pulse weaponry has other
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military applications, in addition to uses as strategic and tactical
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anti-personnel assault-weapons. Missions for non-organic targets
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include increasingly sophisticated methods for rendering equipment
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inoperative or dysfunctional; they include efficient means for
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disrupting the structure of materials.
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However, general policy for the field as a whole can be fairly
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discussed by limiting our attention to the case of strategic and
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tactical anti-personnel assault weapons.
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A Branch of Optical Biophysics
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It is singularly appropriate that a discussion of this field
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should occur in Milan, since it was here that the science of optical
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biophysics was born about five hundred years ago, as an outgrowth of
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the collaboration between Fra Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci.
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It is also to be stressed, that the founding of modern physical
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science and biology, by that collaboration, was the outgrowth of the
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pioneering work in establishing the methods of physical science by
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the great Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa, the Cusa whose writings served
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as the starting-point for the collaboration of Pacioli and Cusa.
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The connection between the work of Cusa and of Pacioli and
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Leonardo, places modern optical biophysics and its military and
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other applications into the proper historical-scientific
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perspective.
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In was in the context of the Council of Florence that Cusa
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published his famous <De Docta Ignorantia>, within which is located
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the most fundamental principle of modern physical science, what is
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called today the principle of physical least action.
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In <De Docta Ignorantia> physical least action is introduced to
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us as a "Maximum Minimum Principle," as the notion modern physics
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associates with the "isoperimetric theorem" of topology as well as
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Leibniz's principle of physical least action. It was on this basis
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that Cusa became the first modern figure of science to show why the
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solar hypothesis was necessary, and out of which the foundations of
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modern relativistic physics were elaborated.
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The following points situate our subject-matter historically.
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Working from Cusa's principle of physical least action, Pacioli
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reconstructed the proof that the five platonic solids are the limit
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of construction of regular polyhedra in euclidean space.
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This proof, as later enriched by Leonhard Euler and others,
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shows that the construction of the Golden Section is a limiting
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value for construction of intelligible representation of forms in
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euclidean space.
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Pacioli and his collaborators added a discovery which remains
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confirmed in full today, that between the limits of the very large
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and the very small, the difference between living and non-living
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forms is that all healthy living processes are harmonically ordered
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morphologically in a manner congruent with the Golden Section.
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Johannes Kepler applied that principle to the very large, to
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demonstrate that the fundamental laws of astrophysics are congruent
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with the Golden Section.
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In other words, the fundamental laws of physics are to be
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adduced as reflections of the curvature of physical space-time
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reflected in the limiting value of the Golden Section.
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Carl Gauss and his successors reworked Kepler's physics from a
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more advanced standpoint, and that new physics of Gauss, Riemann,
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and others found a home among such leading scientists of nineteenth-
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century Italy as the great Betti and Beltrami, from which the great
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Italian school of electrohydrodynamics and aeronautics emerged to
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revive the heritage of Leonardo da Vinci in this field.
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Today, with aid of application of modern high-energy physics to
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the phenomena of what are called "force free" states of plasmas, we
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show that the Kepler-Gauss-Riemann curvature for astrophysics is the
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curvature of physical space-time on the sub-atomic scale.
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Work is currently in progress, with some preliminary success,
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to show that the ordering of the periodic table and the crystalline
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and other physical characteristics associated with each element of
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that table, is determined by synthetic methods coherent with the
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Kepler-Gauss-Riemann notion of the curvature of physical space-time.
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If astrophysics, microphysics, and biophysics are each and all
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determined by such a common curvature of physical space-time, then
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we know several things of great practical importance from this fact
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alone.
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First, we know that all of these processes are elementarily
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non-linear, in the sense that the progress of physics through Gauss,
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Riemann, and Beltrami implies. We also know which popular axiomatic
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sorts of ontological assumptions in physics and biology today must
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be discarded, if we are to render intelligible the elementary
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actions and principles which govern the the sub-atomic and
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astrophysical roots of these non-linear processes' behavior on the
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macro-scale of applications.
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My own approach to these matters has proceeded from the
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standpoint of my successful discoveries in my own profession, in the
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field which Liebniz defined and established as <physical economy>.
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A brief description of my contributions to the science of
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economy will render more accessible the connection between science
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and economy, which I report to you today.
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My entry into economic science started approximately forty
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years ago, as a product of my angered reaction to the notion of
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"information theory" then being popularized by Professor Norbert
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Wiener and others.
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Wiener, as many of you know, attempted to explain <human
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intelligence> from the standpoint of the statistical gas theory of
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the Professor Ludwig Boltzmann who died in 1901, allegedly of
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suicide, at Duino castle.
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Since I had been a student of Leibniz since early adolsecence,
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and an opponent of Immanuel Kant from Leibniz's standpoint, I
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recognized immediately the nature of Professor Wiener's folly. I
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chose the subject of the impact of scientific discovery upon
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productivity of labor as the empirical standpoint in which to
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situate my refutation of Wiener.
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Hence, I was able to show how, contrary to Kant, human creative
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mentation could be given an intelligible representation, and to show
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in what terms productivity might be measured, such that the
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correlation between rates of technological progress and rates of
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increase of potential productivity could be measured and predicted.
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In order to supply a mathematical representation of this
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function I had defined, I turned to the work of Bernhard Riemann.
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Hence, the method I have contributed to the work of economic science
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is known as the LaRouche-Riemann method.
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It is more or less known that the scientific work of Cusa,
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Pacioli, Leonardo, Kepler, Leibniz, Monge, Gauss, and Riemann, among
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others, is situated within the methods of what is called synthetic
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geometry, as opposed to the axiomatic-deductive methods commonly
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popular among professionals today.
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The method of Gauss and Riemann, in which elementary physical
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least action is represented by the conic form of self-similar-spiral
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action, is merely a further perfection of the synthetic method based
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upon circular least action, employed by Cusa, Leonardo, Kepler, and
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so forth.
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It is from the standpoint of Gauss-Riemann, that we know that
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the elementary existence of physical least action, ontologically, in
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the complex domain, is reflected necessarily as the metrical
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characteristic of Golden Section harmonics upon the apparent domain
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of the discrete manifold.
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This indicates that Gauss did not overturn the earlier work of
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Cusa, et al., but merely completed it, giving it a more adequate
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representation. From that vantage-point, we are able to move
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backward and forward in the history of physical science and biology,
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to correlate the work of earlier scientists with the elaboration of
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the complex domain by Gauss, Riemann, et al., during the nineteenth
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century.
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It is feasible, from this standpoint, to restate propositions
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in the language of axiomatic-deductive methods into the language of
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the Gauss-Riemann domain.
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In this way, it is feasible to show rather directly, that
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creative mentation, as typified by valid fundamental scientific
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discoveries, is not only non-linear, but belongs to a domain whose
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curvature is the same as that for a Kepler-Gauss-Riemann physical
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and biological domain.
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Empirical studies also show, that continuous technological
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progress causes the introduction of discontinuities ("non-
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linearities") to any attempt at a linear representation of an
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economic process.
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There is an analogous, but harmonically different sort of
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ordered succession of discontinuities in a devolutionary process;
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the upward course simulates the harmonic ordering of a living
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process, the downward course, an inorganic one, both in the sense
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famously stipulated by Kepler in his paper on the snowflake.
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So, I changed the definition of the terms "entropy" and
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"negative entropy," from the statistical definition employed by
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Wiener. "Negative entropy" or "negentropy" I supplied a synthetic,
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rather than a deductive definition, as akin to Pacioli's definition
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of the characteristic ordering of living processes.
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I divided the two kinds of process-directions, negentropy and
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entropy, as Kepler did in his snowflake paper.
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As any physical economist must, who follows in the footsteps
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of Leibniz, I focussed my work chiefly on the subject of technology.
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The principal question posed to the specialist in technology of
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physical economy, is to establish metrical parameters which
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correlate advances in scientific principle with advances in the
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applied technology derived from such scientific principle.
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If we define the elementary notions of "energy" in the non-
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linear way Riemannian physics demands, rather than the popular
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scalar notions, all statements in physics can be cast in the form of
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statements of energetics defined in that non-linear way.
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In this mode, statements of physical principle become usable as
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statements defining technological progress in the functional terms
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required by economic science.
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Hence, my interests in biology and physics generally have been
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restricted to those matters in which these characteristics are
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foremost. I have been concerned with those developments in biology
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which correlate with my knowledge of the characteristics of creative
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mentation, and with those matters of physics which are crucial for
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significant technological advances in the productivity of labor.
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For this reason, my work in fields of technology significant
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for military applications has emphasized the method of achieving
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efficient spill-over of these technologies into the domain of
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civilian economy.
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My encounter with the modern optical biophysics of non-linear
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spectroscopy of living processes was a direct by-product of my
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preoccupation with the intelligible representation of the form of
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creative mental processes.
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It was clear that human memory, for example, is a holographic
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sort of non-linear function, rather than digital linear one. It was
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important to me, as an economist, to determine how the requirements
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of nutrition and other physiological constraints must be seen as a
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matter of social and economic policy, for the purpose of fostering
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potential creativity among professionals and operatives.
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It is important, therefore, to correlate the characteristics of
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creative mental activity with the biological processes upon which
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mental activity is grounded.
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For that reason, it is those aspects of biological processes
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which have the same general characteristics as creative mental
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activity which were of greatest interest. Work in non-linear
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spectroscopy provided a view of the elementary characteristics of
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cellular and sub-cellular life which was uniquely in correspondence
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with the characteristics of creative mental activity.
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How could it be different than that? The curvature of
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astrophysical, microphysical, and biophysical space-time are the
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same as the curvature of creative mental processes. This arrangement
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is most convenient for us all, since if the curvature of our mental
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creative processes were different than that of the universe in which
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we live, our universe could not be intelligible for mankind.
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It should be noted that Leonardo da Vinci understood matters in
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these same terms, as we may recall from his emphatic defense of the
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principle of hypothesis.
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If we understand the way in which the self-bounding curvature
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of our universe underlies all correct notions of elementary physical
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laws, our power to discover with increasing perfection of knowledge
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is limited only by the adequacy of our understanding of both the
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correct curvature and its implications.
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On this point, as many others, modern evidence shows us that
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Leonardo was correct, and his critics crippled by their own error.
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The modern view of biophysics today, is that the harmonic
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ordering of non-linear electromagnetic processes is the physical
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characteristic of living processes, and that biochemical reactions
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are subsumed by this electromagnetic ordering.
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Moreover, this shows us that biological processes are not
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properly defined in any away within the set of ontological
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assumptions associated with either a Cartesian or any sort of a neo-
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Cartesian discrete manifold.
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Modern biology turns our eyes to those aspects of astrophysical
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phenomena, in which the process as a whole must be comprehended in
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terms of included effects occurring at speeds greater than the speed
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of light; there is there, as in the remarkable electromagnetic
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coordination of tissues, a coherence of the process which defies the
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notion of propagation of action between particles at distance.
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In biological processes, these integrative features of the
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electromagnetic field are among the most interesting phenomena.
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This knowledge of modern biophysics leads us in two directions.
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We derive from modern, electromagnetic studies of optical
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biophysics, knowledge of new practicable principles, by means of
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which life may either be more readily disrupted, or assisted.
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The degree of refinement of technique, by means of which living
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processes might be maliciously affected, enables us to accomplish
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such effects by a small fraction of the energy deposited to produce
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thermal effects.
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Conversely, the potential to improve, to heal, is similarly
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increased. The knowledge gained in the one application, is, for
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better or for worse, inseparable from the other.
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As Weapons Systems
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For rather obvious reasons, including my desire that these
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techniques remain out of the hands of terrorists, I shall not go
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publicly into the technical details of this matter, except to say
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that today nations have access to means by which either hordes of
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locusts or large concentrations of human populations could be killed
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or otherwise neutralized by use of a single weapon of this type.
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The prototypes of the beam-generators exist. The power-sources
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adequate for this exist either off the shelf or as prototypes. With
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improvements in higher temperature superconducting materials, and
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use of such electrodes for gyratrons for example, strategic weapons
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of this class are in reach.
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The computers need to guide the propagation of the pulses are
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rather readily available with reasonable effort to develop
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dedicated-application modules of the required type. The appropriate
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wave-guides are a matter of ingenuity applied to a known field.
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The conveyances suited for the deployment of such assault
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weaponry exist, and more suitable conveyances rather readily
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designed and produced.
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In short, strategic anti-personnel assault weapons as effective
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in their way as thermonuclear weapons, are an imminent potential.
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Moreover, such strategic weapons are more readily deployed, and with
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fewer constraints upon their use, than the thermonuclear weapons
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they could often replace.
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Apart from the direct use of such technologies for military
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purposes as obvious as that, the same technology is the basis for
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special applications producing global effects upon much of the
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earth's biosphere, or some local part of it.
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All of the most interesting effects are characteristically non-
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linear, rather than being the kinds of actions, such as thermal
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effects, we associate with the electrodynamics of the cartesian
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discrete manifold.
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There is no prospect of putting such potentials back into a
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bottle, to lock them away from military uses.
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The Soviets have long been dedicated to such weaponry, and have
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the scientific capability of developing and producing them today.
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How rapidly they might produce such systems in strategically
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significant numbers, is another question. However, we note that
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there are currently occurring very significant changes in the Soviet
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military order of battle, changes which correlate with the early
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deployment of significant numbers of weapons of this general class.
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We should also note, that the Soviet military has been
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dedicated to developing a global strategic ballistic missile defense
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system--its own SDI--for about twenty-five years, and has been
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developing such a system for deployment over the period of
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approximately seventeen years to date.
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During the first half of the 1990s, the Soviets will deploy
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their own version of the U.S. SDI. The technological base required
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for the Soviet version of the SDI it is preparing to deploy, is an
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adequate base for developing and producing the kinds of
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electromagnetic assault weapons we are considering today.
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These new types are weapons are here, to all intents and
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purposes. There are only two classes of nations which will not soon
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deploy them: those which are already subjugated by Moscow, or about
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to become subjugated. We shall develop them as rapidly as possible,
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because we have no rational choice but to do so.
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The Economics of These Weapons
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There are some who will argue, that the present international
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financial collapse is leading us into a new global depression, worse
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than that of the 1930s.
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The financial collapse is now unstoppable; tens of trillions of
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dollars of financial paper will be wiped out before the Spring of
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1989, and there is no means on Earth to prevent this from occurring.
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However, this financial crash need not lead into an economic
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depression, if the government of the United States comes to its
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senses during the months immediately ahead.
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Some will argue, that because of the budget-cuts and other
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depressive effects of the financial crash, the U.S. SDI will be
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stopped, and no new technological breakthroughs launched.
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To that I respond, as I have done in my remarks to a Paris
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conference, that often it is the case that only a profound crisis
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permits the unleashing of sweeping improvements in policy, including
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the unleashing of new scientific and technological revolutions.
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As long as leading institutions are complacently content with
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current policies, they are unlikely to change those habits. It is
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when a profound crisis brings the smug and complacent to their
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knees, crying, "Save us!" that overdue advances are permitted to
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occur.
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If we come to our senses, and rid ourselves of the habits which
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have created the great financial bubble now collapsing upon us, if
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we return, in despair of any other course, to a policy of promoting
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technological progress in a capital-intensive and energy-intensive
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mode, the present crisis were more likely to accelerate the kinds of
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technological changes I indicate, than to delay them.
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Despite the increasing erosion of scientific and related
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machine-tool capabilities during the past twenty years of "post-
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industrial drift," we have accumulated a vast store of new, unused
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technologies ready for immediate application.
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During this same time, we have entered into new dimensions of
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scientific research, from which can pour the greatest advance in
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human productivity ever known over the decades immediately ahead.
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Vis-a-vis the Soviet empire, we of the West have certain
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inherent strategic advantages, among which is the fact that the
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potential for productivity in the OECD nations is approximately
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twice that in the Soviet empire. The OECD nations have twice the
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population of the Russian empire.
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Our population has twice the productive potential of that of
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the Russian empire, if we but employ it properly. In addition, there
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are 350 millions in Ibero-America, predominantly members of our
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Western European culture, and with similar productive potentials. We
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have seas of population among our friends in Africa and non-
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communist Asia.
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Together we represent the overwhelming majority of the land-
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area, maritime choke-points, and population of this planet.
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Our greatest advantage is that which Moscow hates most bitterly
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of all, as it has since muscovy was first founded against a
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counterforce against Roman missionaries such as Cyril and Methodius.
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We have the gift of <agape> (prounounced ah-gah-pay), as the
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New Testament apostles named it in their Greek, the law and
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commandment that we must love God and our neighbor as ourselves.
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This <agape> is the emotion of love of God, love of mankind,
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love of truth, and love of classical beauty. It is also the quality
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which permeates and motivates creative thinking.
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For reason of the idea of the nature of God, the human
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individual, and all else, which is the precious heritage of our
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civilization, we have been given the greatest potential for
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generation and assimilation of scientific and related progress of
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any culture.
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This gift is not a property of our race, but something which,
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with <agape>, we are properly destined to preserve and to share with
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all humanity. This gift is also the means by which we may acquire
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all the power we need to defend that <agape> for our nations and for
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humanity as a whole.
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Our people have the cultural potential to generate and to
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assimilate technological progress at the greatest rate possible
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among all mankind.
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It is not only a means of power; it is our nature to order our
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affairs in such a way that the creative powers of the individual
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human mind are the quality with which we embed all our practice.
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It is the duty and the privilege of the leaders of our nations
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to foster the education, the conditions of family life, and
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opportunities for labor, which are consistent with that principle.
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The fostering of the increase of the average productive powers
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of labor, to the benefit of all mankind, is the proper
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characteristic of man's labor.
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We must choose this course not merely because the very
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existence of our civilization is menaced from the east today.
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Rather, it is the enormity of the crisis which impels us to resume
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a policy from which we should never have departed.
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It is the looming tragedy, threatening the existence of our
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civilization which obliges us to affirm those policies of practice
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which are the most natural way of life for our culture.
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Without overlooking the ominous threat from the East, let us
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define the task before us, in Milan today, as the rebuilding of
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Italy, as part of the rebuilding of Europe, and of continuing the
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proper mission of western european culture to the benefit of all
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mankind.
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Let us situate the employment of these new technologies within
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the economic task of rebuilding Italy as Betti and Beltrami, and
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Leonardo da Vinci before them, would have preferred we do.
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Let us assume that we are committed to large-scale capital
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improvements in the basic economic infrastructure of Italy. In that
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case, we may assume that the preconditions for capital improvement
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and growth of the nation's agriculture and industry are being
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satisfied.
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Under those conditions, what Italy must do is similar in a
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general way to what I must do, if I become the next President, in
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the United States, and what must be done throughout western Europe.
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However, let us situate what must be done in Italy itself in
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relationship to the SDI and the new technologies under discussion
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here today.
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The crux of industrial development of Italy is the efficient
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coordination of precious handfuls of scientists and machine-tool
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enterprises with the complex of larger enterprises which are the
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centers of industrial production. Let us begin with the special
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relationship between scientific teams and the machine-tool
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enterprises.
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In the physics department of a well-organized university there
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is a special sort of machine-tool shop.
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A scientist has devised an experimental hypothesis, perhaps a
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test of some crucial scientific principle.
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The scientist works with the university's machine-tool
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facility, to create his experimental apparatus. Once a new principle
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has been established in that way, the same scientist is situated to
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take the fruits of his work to a machine-tool facility, which will
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translate the discovery into a new technology made available to
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industry.
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If industry has available adequate flows of investment-capital,
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retained earnings, and credit at reasonably low prices, and if
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investment tax-credits are designed to encourage such investments,
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industries will tend to gobble up new technologies produced, even
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almost as rapidly as they are available.
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The integration of those combined efforts, of research, of
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development of improved technologies in the machine-tool sector, and
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improved productive capital for industry, is the triadic form of
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optimal organization of technological industrial progress and
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growth.
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The popular opinion of opposition to this course of actions
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comes largely from those who have been infected with the ideology of
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"consumerism."
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These misinformed persons imagine falsely, that it is consumer
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purchases which generate growth of industry. On the contrary, what
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prompts the growth of markets for households' goods, is the growth
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of population and employment.
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The most important source of this growth in employment,
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agriculture aside, is the combination of capital improvements in
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basic economic infrastructure and employment in production of
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capital goods.
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It is the vertical development of industry which makes possible
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its horizontal development; it is chiefly the percentile of
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operatives employed in infrastructure and production of capital
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goods which enlarge the market for sale of households' goods.
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By basic economic infrastructure, I mean water-mangement,
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general transportation, production and distribution of energy, urban
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sanitation, and such crucial contributions to the productivity of
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labor as education and medical services.
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The dynamic of growth is supplied by the increase of the
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productivity of agricultural and industrial operatives, and the
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transfer of unemployed and marginally employed into employment as
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such skilled operatives. The average growth of productivity is the
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true margin of real profit of a national economy as a whole.
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Since increase of productivity requires improved standards of
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life for households, sustained growth and profitability can be
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secured in only one way: through sustained technological progress in
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capital-intensive and energy-intensive modes of production.
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So, whenever we integrate science, machine-tool sectors, and
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general industrial investment in the way I have indicated, we have
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turned that triadic relationship into s science-driver for raising
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the incomes and productivity of the economy as a whole.
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Obviously, therefore, the greater the ration of scientists so
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employed, the greater the ration of operatives employed in the
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machine-tool sector, and the greater the ration of operatives
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employed in capital goods production generally, the more prosperous
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the economy will become.
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Thus, the vertical expansion of the division of labor in
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industry, energized by the triadic relationship, yields the highest
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potential rates of per-capita improvement of a national economy.
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The shrewdest policy for this case, is a commitment to
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technological "leapfrogging." In general, it were wiser for a nation
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not to try to compete with foreign industries on existing levels of
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technology in use; instead make a leap ahead of the level of
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technology currently practised in foreign nations. The worse the
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competitive level of repair of one's economy, the more urgent such
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"leapfrogging" is.
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Italy has a dwindling kernel of the quality of scientists and
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related advanced machine-tool capabilities in the tradition of Betti
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and Italy's aeronautics industry earlier during this century.
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Let us take a number of such diversified technological
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capabilities, and group them under a single name:
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"electrohydrodynamics."
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That represents the kernel of Italy's special scientific
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potentials. This is a scientific potential well suited to the kinds
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of technologies associated with SDI and the new dimensions of non-
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linear electromagnetic biophysics and related fields.
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Link that to the machine-tool sector, concentrating scarce
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resources along that technological breakthrough front.
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Link that to the vertical development of the industrial base
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generally.
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This has become an obvious road toward applying limited
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resources to the effect of fostering the optimal national result.
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It must be stressed, that the military application of these
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technologies is only a small fraction of their potential. It is
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spilling these technologies into the civilian sector as rapidly as
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possible, which is the principal source of benefit to the nation as
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a whole.
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At the same time, it is an intangible, but most powerful
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economic benefit to the people of a nation, to associate their
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nation with technological achievements of which to take pride before
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the world.
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If a people says <agape>, finding its manifest national purpose
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beautiful in that way, that people is happier, and more productive
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for that reason.
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It is time for the nations of western european culture to rise
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out of the quicksands of cultural pessimism, in which we have been
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trapped these past twenty years, to assist one another in achieving
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great works worthy of being admired by all humanity, and to rejoice
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in such accomplishments by our neighbors.
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Today, we are faced with the grim business of continued
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strategic conflict. Let us do what we must on the account, but let
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us enjoy more the good we acomplish as contributions to the welfare
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of mankind in the course of doing our duty to our civilization.
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