The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
Power Is



and by his ability to convert to his
own use the various physical factors
| Of his environment he has lifted him.
self above all other creatures. Also
every time he finds new method OF
adapting the surrounding natnre-forces
| to lift his standard of living; he also
turns loose other natural forces to
which he is subject as part OF the
physical world 1t is the cumulative
effect of these scientific natural
forces, which is the basic fundamental
background of the real causes of his
torical changes. We humans missed
all this in the past, because in our
glorified ego we like to parade as the
moulders of events, the king pins Of
destiny, ETC. While really what little
success some great historical figure
has had, has been largely due to his
guessing on line of action, which
| happened to be in conformity with
the scientific physical forces already
pressing in that direction. Man by his
puny efforts at battling against the
physical forces, can for time hold
up the final results; but eventually
the natural laws win out
Our Technologist hunts through the
musty pages of the past for evidence
of these physical forces and studies
the results, which they forced upon
human society. To do this and CORE
late the findings with the present set
up he must needs use technique,
that is, common base, which Is
equally fundamental to all times. This
may sound difficult; but really all he
had to do to get that common de-
nominator of all time is to analyze the
basic reality of today. Treating man
as physical being and his way OF
life as a use of material surroundings
for food, clothing and shelter, 1t is
quite plain to see that the science of
physics must hold the key to getting
at a common denomination. Matter
is the common substance through
which all activity is manifested and
matter has been broken up into small
er and smaller particles until we
reach the atom; and even that is now
broken up into particles of force or
ENERGY There is the fundamental,
common denomination Of all things
| from birth to death. And the beauty
of it is that energy is always meas
ureable; so there Is no variable base
here; but something solid to build
upon.
Now our Technologist is ready to
tackle history from an ENERGY ba-
sis, because it is through the use of
ENERGY that man makes use of his
environment; and it is that which
effects his way of life. This is the
| Technologist' way of measuring the
forces of civilization and like all scien-
tific methods it can be checked and
/, proved, and from the data thus OBJ
tanned the Technologist can make ac-
curate predictions as to the future
state of affairs in the economic and
social structure of a people. 1t has
been done in the past and is being
done today much to the discomfit-
ure of the economic and political
soothsayers who cling to the outworn
conventional methods of approach.
Whenever SCIENCE invades a new
field it is always fought bitterly by
the high priests of the statusquo of
that field. In the field of economics
and social institutions the Technolo-
gist can sit back and smile to him
self, for these activities are using the
weapons of science with which to
carry on, and the natural SCIENTIFIC
LAWS, thus harnessed, and turned
loose will force all to bow to their
mandate The Technologist simply
sits back and points the direction we
will take in our submission; whether
we like it or not.