"In the chemistry department the pupil is told that a rock cannot be
a rock without these elements, that when it is dehydrated it becomes
dust, yet here in the next classroom he is told that here on the Moon
the rocks are abundant yet the Moon is devoid of air or oxygen. Does
that make any sense?"
"It is all due to the lack of coordination of sciences. Just like this
one. In this one classroom you are told both of these things. You are
told that the Moon is hot on the side exposed to the Earth, then you
are told that the side that the Earth never sees is awfully cold.
But they didn't tell you that where the cold and the hot meet there
is more than likely to be a temperate zone, which you know since you
have landed there. And who in the world has ever heard of a side that
is cold, as they say it is in this schoolroom, and not have oxygen
and nitrogen? Is it not the moisture of these elements that makes for
the coldness of anything? And would there not be some leakage, as you
Earth men would say, from the hot side to the cold side, or are there
barriers or walls that keep it from passing from the hot side unto the
cold side? It doesn't make sense."
"Here on our own planet Mars your instruments show the polar caps.
These polar caps are far larger than any you have on Earth. Yet these
men of knowledge tell your people that inhabitation here would be
impossible due to the rarity of atmospheric conditions. Yet you know
better now that you have been here. Then another thing they tell you,
that this planet has been inhabited at one time but now it is not, due
to the lack of water. And if it was true that there was a lack of water
on this planet, do you suppose that the intelligence that the Great
Father has given to us would not have guided us from the dry section
to the polar section where water would be available? Even a lower
animal would do that. And yet the way they give the news to the people,
these learned men would make you believe that we had not sufficient
intelligence to move towards the water, where water was, but stayed and
perished when the water evaporated. It doesn't make sense, or at least
doesn't give a human any credit for having any intelligence. Too, the
way you picture the inhabitants of the various planets your imagination
is badly distorted."
"Here is one more. You tell your people that there is no oxygen in
space and in the same breath you tell them that the sun spots are
active and throw flames half a million miles in space. You even have
pictures of the sun with two widely separated craters shooting flames
so far that they finally arched in space. Yet you tell your people
that you can't have a fire in the absence of oxygen. Then what makes
the flames shoot out half a million miles in space and keep burning if
there is no oxygen there?"
"This is what we mean when we say your sciences need revising,
coordinating and intelligently expressed, while at present they
contradict themselves through their own complications."
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