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-====== The Inner Life 1937 ======
+====== The Inner Life ======
-== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE ==
+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | FEBRUARY 1937 ==
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-“DOES IT GLORIFY GOD?”
-WHEN bewildered in the labyrinth of possible courses of
+<WRAP centeralign>
-action while trying to solve the problems of our daily
+==== “DOES IT GLORIFY GOD?” ====
-lives, have we sought an acid test—one that could be applied
+</WRAP>
-under any and all circumstances, and never be found wanting?
-In my frantic efforts not to permit the self to be the object of
+<WRAP justify>
-solicitous care, I have committed many errors in behalf of my
+WHEN bewildered in the labyrinth of possible courses of action while trying to solve the problems of our daily lives, have we sought an acid test—one that could be applied under any and all circumstances, and never be found wanting?
-brothers.
-In my anxious attempts to stand upon the neck of a self-
+In my frantic efforts not to permit the self to be the object of solicitous care, I have committed many errors in behalf of my brothers.
-righteous one, I have trod often upon the liberties of my neighbor.
-Where could I find an acid test whereby I might know that
+In my anxious attempts to stand upon the neck of a self-righteous one, I have trod often upon the liberties of my neighbor.
-my action would eventually result in the most good to the greatest
-number?
-Where could I find an acid test, whereby I might know that
+Where could I find an acid test whereby I might know that my action would eventually result in the most good to the greatest number?
-even the service I render myself will ultimately rebound to the
-benefit of the whole?
-When I ask myself the question: “Would it be good for you?”
+Where could I find an acid test, whereby I might know that even the service I render myself will ultimately rebound to the benefit of the whole?
-or “Would it be proper for me?” I inevitably become lost in a
-maze of entanglements.
-The perfect acid test I finally found in trying to answer this
+When I ask myself the question: “Would it be good for you?” or “Would it be proper for me?” I inevitably become lost in a maze of entanglements.
-question:
+The perfect acid test I finally found in trying to answer this question:
 “DOES IT GLORIFY GOD?”
-Ah! Now have I risen above personalities. I stumble not in
+Ah! Now have I risen above personalities. I stumble not in another’s path, I slip not in my own; for I am heading toward the ALL.
-another’s path, I slip not in my own; for I am heading toward
-the ALL.
 Is this the acid test? Can we apply it safely? Let us try it.
-For the one who walks each step of the Way, who must test
+For the one who walks each step of the Way, who must test each rung of the ladder that leads from mortality to divinity, there can be no surer, safer guide than making oneself always measure up to this question:
-each rung of the ladder that leads from mortality to divinity,
-there can be no surer, safer guide than making oneself always
-measure up to this question:
-“DOES IT GLORIFY GOD?”
+“DOES IT GLORIFY GOD?”—Freda Gasky
+</WRAP>
+----
-—Freda Gasky
-THE TREASURES OF THE AIR
-By DAVID SARNOFF
-President of the Radio Corporation of America
-SIDE by side with the development of radio and television,
-human ingenuity is evolving another method of aerial cor-
-respondence. I refer to the immediate transfer by radio of facsimile
-documents through the ether. Man writes a letter and—presto!
-—its exact image appears somewhere 3,000 miles away. The
-technical problem of transmitting photographs, letters, telegrams,
-and printed pages of newspapers in facsimile through the ether
-is solved already within certain limits. The facsimile transmission
-of documents presents fewer problems than television, because it
-need not be instantaneous and is not synchronized with sound.
-Ether delivery will one day be developed so that I will be able
-to write a letter at my desk and have that letter transmitted in
-facsimile almost instantly to Australia. My correspondent in
-Australia should be able to reply within a few minutes. Then it
-would not take more time to transmit his reply than to dictate the
-letter.
-Men may read their home paper, reproduced electrically, on
-board of an ocean liner or an airship. We have not reached
-this point as yet, but it is a development that will come within
-our lifetime.
-The wealth of the earth may be exhaustible, but we have not
-even tapped the treasures of the air. In the future man’s blessings
-and man’s wealth may come to him from above. Even today we
-exploit the air not merely for transportation and communication;
-we actually extract from it nitrogen to fertilize our crops. There
-are other elements in the aerial ocean only waiting to be released.
-The cosmic ray may unlock new unsuspected sources of energy.
-The air is full of “static” electricity. Today static is only a
-nuisance. Some day a battery may be invented to convert static
-electricity and to make it dynamic. It may snatch out of the air
-energy that can be harnessed to many uses. Pushing onward, we
-may draw directly energy from the sun and light from the moon.
-Who can foretell the next move, or tell if the new inventions
-will bring happiness, good will, and peace to man?
-The radio, television, and other modern scientific devices can-
-not change the fundamentals of human nature.
-I do not share the terror of the mechanical age, preached by
-some philosophers and endorsed by the befuddled economists.
-They tell us that we are becoming the slaves of the machine, they
-frighten us with the cry of “technocracy,” and insist that every
-new mechanical device throws thousands out of work who will
-never find employment again. To me, this seems arrant non-
-sense. Civilization means elimination of unnecessary labor. The
-sewing machine and the vacuum cleaner save millions of women
-from backbreaking toil. The tractor makes the farmer’s life bear-
-able. The automobile lends wings to us all. The airplane is our
-magic carpet.
-It would be madness to slow up invention because of a mis-
-taken philosophy. Our trouble is not that mechanical science
-moves too rapidly, but that the governmental and social sciences
-move too slowly. They fail to keep step with progress.
-If man is to live up to his destiny, he must recognize the necessity
-of constant movement in a dynamic world. Man’s primary diffi-
-culty, I repeat, is his slowness to adjust himself socially and eco-
-nomically to the speed of mechanical progress. We must make our
-social and political forces move faster.
-We do not need the totalitarian state, the complete submergence
-of individualism, demanded by the “isms” of the day. There is,
-there must be, a democratic formula for ending the barren con-
-flict between politics and economics. In such a conflict politics
-temporarily wins, because the politician can transform his will
-into law. But in the end economics wins, because its immutable
-laws supersede the man-made laws of dictators. The conflict be-
-tween the two, while it lasts, creates prejudice and disorder and
-leads—unless checked—to the survival of the unfittest.
-What the world needs most is a new philosophy, providing the
-laborer, the financier, and the statesman with a common ideal and
-a common objective. We must learn to live and to let live. We
-must accept reasonable restrictions of personal freedom while pre-
-serving its essence, and we must admit that all people are en-
-titled to better things and a higher standard of living.
-Man will find his way to a more abundant future, the future
-I prophesy, not by defying, but by applying the forces of science.
-In a world reorganized to vibrate within certain wave bands,
-human intelligence will be able to distribute equitably nature’s
-bounties from above and below, and make princes of paupers.
-Science will create for us a new heaven on a new earth!
-—As told to George Sylvester Viereck, in Liberty Magazine
-under title of “After Television—What?”
-BOUND VOLUMES FOR 1936
-ALL SUBSCRIBERS wishing to have their 1936 copies of
-THE INNER LIFE Magazine bound should send them in
-for that purpose by the 15th of February, so they can be given to
-the Binder along with our stock order. Those received after that
-date will have to wait until later in the year.
-The price of binding is as usual $1.15 postpaid. This is for
-binding alone—you supplying the unbound copies.
-Price of the Bound Volumes is $2.65 postpaid per copy. This
-volume contains many very important articles and it would be
-well for all those wishing a copy to order at once, as only a limited
-number will be available this year, all of the separate February,
-April, June and September issues having been sold so that no
-more can be secured.
-WHOSOEVER WILL
-“O TENDER One, O mighty One,
-Whoever sent away
-The sinner or the sufferer,
-Thou art the same today.
-The same in love, the same in power,
-And Thou art waiting still
-To heal the multitudes that come,
-Yea, whosoever will.”
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