to make valuable explosives at a stage in their growth, when they
They will devise ways to mine coal efficiently, in enormous amounts,
their few stores. They will use up a lot of it in a simian habit[1]
the globe, to see ten thousand things in the hope of thus filling
in lairs.
Their minds will be full enough.html">enough. Their intelligence.html">intelligence will be active
their wisdom. Their intelligence will enable them to build great
them aright. They will form greater political.html">political empires than they
is the best scheme of go/government.html">government, without stopping to realize that
he knows without learning.)
The natural result will be industrial and political wars. In a world
Inventions will come so easily to simians (in comparison with all
monkeying around, making inventions, that their many devices will
their time will have to be spent keeping their numerous ingenuities
their locks and their clocks. In the field of science to be sure,
and beautiful discoveries: telescopes and the calculus, radiographs,
of them. But here again their simian-ness will cheat them of half
importance, and honor extravagantly those of less value and splendor
talk.html">talk.html">talk, more and more, will be hailed by these beings as one of the
this class. The lightning when harnessed and tamed will be made to
writing, will roll unceasingly over their civilized realms, involving
talk is supposed to upbuild. In a simian civilization, great halls
to go inside at night to hear some self-satisfied talk-maker chatter
very few subjects will be counted important enough for the average
.
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