The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want
John Stuart Mill · en
All one has to do to see this, is to look about and see the people who
have done it.
When one is being born the first time one does not even know it. One is
not especially intelligent the first time and could not really help it.
And nobody else could help it.
When one is being born again it takes all one can know and all one can
know and do, and all everybody around one knows, and all everybody around
can do, to help one do it. In 1776 when America was being born first,
America did not have the slightest idea of what was happening. It has
taken one hundred and forty-four birthdays to guess.
A nation is born the first time with its eyes shut.
But in this terrible 1920 when America is being born again, she can only
manage to be born again by knowing all about herself, by disrobing
herself to be born again, by a supreme colossal act of self-devotion,
self-discovery, self-consciousness and consciousness of the world, naked
before God, reading the hearts of forty nations, a thousand years and the
unborn, and knowing herself,--slipping off her old self and putting on
her new self.
III
THE AIR LINE LEAGUE
The first thing a spirit in this world usually does to find a body is to
select a father and mother. The American people if it is to be embodied
and have the satisfaction and power of making itself felt and expressing
itself, can only do so by following the law of life.
A hundred million people can only get connected with a body, acquire a
presence--find itself as a whole, the way each one of the hundred million
people did alone.
In a nation's being born again three types of mind are necessarily
involved.
The minds in America that create or project, the inventors.
The minds that bring up.
The minds that conceive and bring to the birth.
These three classes of spiritual forces are concerned in America in
making the people stop being a ghost, in making their American people as
an idea, physically fit.
The first thing to be arranged for America to make the people quit being
a ghost in The White House, is to form into three bodies or
organizations, these three, groups of men--make these three groups of men
class-conscious, self-conscious, conscious of their own power and purpose
in America--and have everybody in America conscious of them. I propose
three organizations to stand for these three life-forces, three
organizations which will act--each of which will act with the other two
and will follow out for a nation, as individuals do for individuals, the
law of life--of producing and reproducing the national life.
The minds that are creative will discover and project a national idea for
the people--the inventors, will act as one group.
The minds that conceive and bring the idea to the birth, that bring the
idea to pass, called engineers, will act as another, and the minds that
teach, bring up, draw out and apply the idea and relate the idea to
life--will act as another.