Note from Hank Beukema

From: Hank Beukema
Subject: The New Century

I have found a startling passage in a book I'm reading and want to share it with you:

"He felt the sense of human effects of the enormous and constantly accelerating release of usable energy resulting from the evolving scientific technology of the new century. Virtually every major premise, every cherished human value, every certainty of that old century whose child the man felt himself to be, had been destroyed by the end of the century, and nothing had been put in their places that could give a comparable feeling of security and direction in an amiable, reasonable world. The world was no longer amiable OR reasonable. Power had gone out of control. An anarchy of stupendous forces raged through the city of man. And of all this, of all this, the New York City skyline as seen from the deck of a ship entering the harbor had seemed symbolic. "The outline of the city became frantic..." he wrote, "The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone andsteam against the sky."

This is from the 1972 book FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny and was from the 1904 writings of Henry Adams...... Unbelievable,,,,, This is why I love reading, and the blues, and poetry, and this group......: It's all happened before......... and somebody else knows how You feel...... Hank

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