New-York tribune., 1922-10-04
The Tower

The I1ozcer
Copr.. New York Tribune Inc 1921
THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE
There will be very few laws in The
Almost Perfect State. Such laws as
there are will exist only for the pur-
pose of being violated, as people are
SO in the habit of violating laws that
1t would be pity to take that simple
pleasure from them.
CHECK AND BALANCE
Any one who wishes to violate a
law, however, will be compelled to
withdraw to distance from his fellow
men, SO that the violation will not in
terfere with them.
Every citizen Of The Almost Perfect
State will be law unto himself. The
violation of law, therefore, will be an
internal row within the ego OF. each
individual; necessary thing If the in
dividual is to grow into something
better.
Self-improvcment will be one Of the
n-and-outdoor sports Of the A. p. S.
out any one soho talks about sclf-im-
proUemcnt, uplift and so forth wiU be
boiled IN asphalt,
CIVIC CENTERS
The asphalt obtained by boiling these
persons will be used to pave central
courts In the chief cities of the A. p. S.
Then persons of levity and beauty
and understanding will come and dance
on the asphalt.
LEv1TY
Levity Is the result Of spiritual and
aesthetic poise. A person who is CROP
ing and struggling and fighting for
such poise is worried and grave. All
progress is toward levity through
gravity. Weight, then wings. But it
is the wings which are the goal, not
the weight. Weight in itself is not
the thing desired or to be desired.
People who understand only weight
and gravity are trivial half-people.
The really serious persons are those
who know about levity and wings.
II series OF trtghtfuz biological
mossacres is necessary to clear the eoorh
Of too much gravity and prepare It for
ne7o species uo,oed to levtty and ,ov,
let tho gods attend to that, 1t is for
such things that We hove created tho
gods. II they fail US, ve will create
me,o ones. But 1t 1oould be mistake to
assist too gruuely and consciously in
tho creation Of ncao gods and mev
species. 1t Is not something that can
be done By committee meetings.
HOW TO GET IT
Hug the thought to the solar plexus
say nothing about it and nature will
do the rest.
Suppose nature doesn't?
Very soelI, then, 7scture aUiU hnuc to
be changed.
In tho creation of new gods to as
sist US In the creation Of new species
we may some time stumble onto the
idea that we are the gods.
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ADVICE AND ADMoNIT1oN
II we should find that out, let us
not be too grave about it. Let US recog-
nize that our wings are to frivol with
The goal Of all civilization, all re-
ligious thought and all that sort of
thing is simply to Have Good Time.
But man gets so solemn over the
process that he forgcts the end.
Law and anarchy, order and chaos,
weight and wings are necessary to
make up the universe. Duality is the
essence of all myths, religions, sciences,
cosmic conceptions. Progress seems to
be toward an equilibrium: Perhaps it
is toward the explosion which follows
an instant of equilibrium. Equilibrium
by the touching of the. mega
tive and positive poles of the eternal
paradox may vanish in the spark
evoked, and the universe fly to dust
and flinders, to start the process of
creating itself all over again.
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Maybe creating itself is all the fun
it gets.
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You should worry about the explo-
sion that comes the instant after
uilibrium-equilibriu which is the
goal Of all things and which is at the
same time unthinkable and impossible
you should worry about this explo-
sion. 1t will be long time coming;
you should worry about it,.
That Is, If you want to worry, it is
the only thing in the universe you
have to worry about.
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The business Of humanity is: getting
Uings,