19 Land to Sky—The Outward Progression
2As an aftermath of the private presentation of this paper at St. Louis, questions have been propounded seeking enlightenment on further of its phases. As it is uneconomical to destroy the already prepared copies, these, paragraphs are added in the form of a chapter. The chapter is devised somewhat after the plan of small unconnected sketches on one sheet of paper, drawn however, from a single point of view. The point of view, through introspection, unlimited to the segmental area of our temporal eyes, is our abstract central position in the center of the universe, looking or building from the inside out, as from the center of a great glass globe of the earth. Through this globe may be viewed the progression of relative positions to the starry universe, looking along the time lines in all directions. The separate paragraph thoughts are only connected by their common truths, which are the material crystalline spheres of sensible and reasonable fact, through which the radial timelines of individualism must inevitably pass in their outward progression towards the temporal infinity.
3 Oft repeated sayings have been set down, reborn in themselves by virtue of their truth, and tested for days on the basis of freedom from selfishness. They have but a small change of inflection or order, which would not commend them to the superficial reader. They straighten out, as set down, many of the points at which divergence from the road of truth has been made in the past. Inasmuch as these few pages have been reduced from a large manuscript, there is not a sentence set down without searching valuation and proportionment of its construction. The thoughts must be ruminated in or mentally chewed with the saliva of common experience, for proper digestion. They must be taken successively in the purposeful order in which they have been set down. To read them otherwise is to waste the time of the reader. Waste must ever be the part of the selfish or egotistical.
4 The puzzle for many years as to why politics have been so distasteful to the American gentleman as opposed to his English relative, is clearly solved in the light of the economic progress of the newer world, whose economic survival law has refused sustenance to the able mind in the ever less consequential political sphere. Time is space. No longer do we ask ‘‘how far’’ in units of land measure, but in units of ‘‘time’’ Politics deal in legislation of the relatively diminishing land units.
5 The sport of ‘‘town planning’’, to which many otherwise inactive brains are now turning, attracted by the great minds that have accomplished much with this problem, while it was still a problem in temporal progress, will soon perish. It is economically unprofitable. It is generally financed by charitable funds seeking to retain a reservoir of human help about the economic centers. What manner of profit can be devised therein to pay the bills for those who say: that we must all live in a circle; that all the children will use the streets between six and three; that all autos will use the streets between seven and five; and that all the housewives will shake their mops to the eastward at 9:17 A.M. For some reason they have left cathartics out of the schedule. We are all too familiar with the inconveniences born of having to pretend it is an hour earlier than it is in reality. Such is the practice amongst temporally controlled urban dwellers. About such static ‘‘plants’’ of school house and sewer system are the political grafting systems woven.
6 The economics of alcohol and the balance of a self-destructive pastime, must presage a mental destruction as well. This is indicatively warned against by the great depression that must follow alcohol's elation period. The active and able mind is at the greatest disadvantage under the material influence of alcohol, while the normally deficient mind of the bestially controlled is balanced upward, and appears almost brilliant under the influence of liquor. In either event it is a time waster and must therefore result in destruction of itself. As with all progress it can be rather hindered than aided by legislation. Drunkeness has been the material harmonizer of balance in the age of suppression. The new harmony of spiritual happiness envelopes the mild mellowness of the former in the proportion of the enveloping sphere. With the advent of the new home, will there be ‘‘no liquor question’’. Mental elation will take the form of fun created by Barrie, Milne, and Morley, embodying rhythm of the spirit.
7 In the exquisite working day of the approaching mental control era, the actual mental work will be done at night, for the dark is nature's own manner of obliteration of material considerations. Night provides freedom of mental range, in which there is much indicative meaning to the nightly revelation of the starry universe. Daylight will be given to exercise for physical perfection, balancing the period of physical servitude of today and yesterday. Though all work is done at night, the perfection of equation will be, as always, in the ever-shortening period of sleep. Nighttime’s mental activity will deal with the material results of daytime’s machine activities, completely segregated from human servitude.
8 There will be no salesmen of 4 D Houses, for they can, in themselves, do but one man's work. They are a survival of the days when material presence was necessary to the establishment of personal faith. Invariably does self-consciousness betray truth in the prosaic contact of ‘‘salesmanship’’ (ugly word). How small is the word personal, implying the material being, as compared to the word individual. The great broadcasting systems of ever greater good faith will be the spherical multiple of 4 D's salesmen to individuality, in the great mechanical ‘‘step up’’. There will be no personal business contacts involving decisions, all interchange to be intelligent and lack the material equation, must be written.
9 Stores in the new buildings of the economic trading center, no longer cities of dwellings, will be as booths beneath the boughs of the tree. No longer depressed, due to the new central tower construction, by the apparent great weight of the building resting upon them, may they unapologetically display their usefulness in harmonious compositions. The material harmony of our approaching trade centers will be exquisitely beautiful. They will appear as a fleet of ‘‘sailing boats’’ seen head on coming ‘‘down the wind’’, sunlight filtering through wind billowed sails.
10 Capital heritages, bequeathed economically in good faith, for the turnover of transferred ownership is costly, are decently correct. If the new capital guardian promotes unselfishly the capital cycle, he wi' remain its master. If he is a waster, his time loss shall be in spherical ‘‘root taking’’ progression.
11 Many more lives have been lost in mines below the surface of the earth, and in submergence below the surface of the water, than will ever be in the air. There is significance in the economic publicity of a single air death, as opposed to a multi-mine death. There is no further need of coal mines. Coal has been economically supplanted. Death is the natural protest of nature in the name of progress. The mine workers and employers squabble is but the usual ‘‘tempest in a teapot’’ of the economical bastard.
12 There is great significance in the ever increasing sale of globes by map companies. The world is beginning to sense its shape. We are leaving the land sphere and progressing ever higher and away from it. Despite ever increasing population there is less and less contact with the earth. Naked cave dwelling is forsaken for clothed air dwelling; bare feet for shoe soles, shoe soles for wagons, wagons for autos, and autos for planes. Land values despite the ‘‘blah’’ bleats of the subdivider will become ever less in value. All that is static, or heavy, in this ever more rapidly moving universe must depreciate in relative value. The static fallacy of opinion has been that, as population increased, land would go up in value. This is a one plane thought. As the one track river flows to the sea, and as the tree branches out, so are we branching into an actually greater sphere. As time lengthens do we not by our 4 D laws progress from the center of the earth out upon its radial lines. The ‘‘pound of flesh’’ value is gone. The mortgage on land is going to drop to worthlessness as we progress to values of faith, from values of material possessions. The value of the individual portion of the universe goes literally ‘‘up’’ actually increasing in spheroidal segmentation volume as the sphere of temporal activity is increased. It is significant that we have always had an intuitive warning against mortgages as investments, without the moral backing of an industry behind them; and that they have been only salable to the less intelligent class of investor. It is more than significant that the National City Bank has departed from its ‘‘time honored’’ dependence on ‘‘bonds only’’ as safe for ‘‘legal’’ investment, to good stocks. We are only investing in good faith of the spirit of humanity, as against temporal value of the material, in such progressive economics. It is more than significant that J.J. Mitchell, late leading banker of Chicago, the railroad center of the world, had not one railroad security in his legacy; while Bruce Barton, premier advertising council, apostle of good faith, and essayist, is publicly on record as against railroad securities.
13 Which would one rather be, a worm or a bird—a miner or an aviator. The way the heart goes, so goes progress, controlled by the wish of the spirit. There is complete truth that the thought is father to the wish. Thought is born of God. Wishes are reasonable.
14 The second great adventure of nature after detaching itself from the earth sphere, to which it had been rooted as are trees, floated away by the deluge, and finding its epitome in man; was the conquest of the second or liquid sphere of the earth. Boats, and their river and sea commerce, opened up the second stage of progress. Such we found its zenith in England’s control of the world. The third great era of man is his conquering of the air or vapor sphere, always expanding outward. There will be common ownership of land, even as there is of the water and the air, it being rented on its directly productive value for factory or farm. With the freedom of the new 4 D home, will none of the drudgery in moving, as at present, recur. The home may be picked up by the service station and stored or it may be moved with people in their ever more desirable travels about the earth. 4 D homes break the last bond of material control. The world is becoming larger, not smaller, none need ever despair of exhausting its wonders.
15 Inasmuch as: digging through ground, to make a city subway, costs millions of dollars per mile; and making roads on the surface of the earth costs thousands of dollars per mile; and making roads in the air costs nothing; and inasmuch as the material composition of goods of commerce becomes ever lighter, and will be literally reduced to but a fraction of their present weight when the new method of building is incepted; and, inasmuch as the building industry will be the largest and bespeaks decentralization; the development of flying gear will be so great as to lift all commercial traffic, which is so lightened, from off the actual surface of the earth. Bonds applied to the land ‘‘right of way’’ of Railroads will be worthless, so far as material security goes. The stocks bespeaking faith.and progress will become ever greater in value. Chicago’s proposed subways and canals to the sea will never be completed. More TIME will be spent in keeping the sea from the land. The average depth of the sea is five times as great as the average height of the land above sea level.
16 There are three kinds of betting: first, on beasts (horses) which, in the name of intelligence, wastes or decreases capital; second, on cards, which, like deceiving one’s self for apparent amusement, is only willful garbling of facts, and wasteful of both time and truth; third, on the stock market, which if intelligent is but betting on the supremacy of God in man. Of such is the economic expansion.
17 Amongst the best of stock properties is the life insurance stock—obvious. Man buys life insurance against his accidental death. The insurance company can almost overlook the accidental death, it is of so small a percentage, and bases its rates on compound interest over a given period of time of life. As average longevity increases the sums of unused reserve pile up with resultant high earning. Life insurance stock bets on the supremacy of mind over matter. It is a winner.
18 There has been request for further discussion of the mechanical labor development. As machinery becomes more and more the material producer and workers become ever more highly paid, but ever fewer, as they are retired to the great competence, machinery will be actuated on the televox principle by its controlling master; let us say: talking to Peru this morning, we find they need so many houses; automatic stock recorders show so much material needed. Compiling all demand supply on composite problem machines, like calculating machines, and pressing the starter lever, record of results in figures is given, but, more important still, the mechanical orders have gone forward to mechanical departments by televox principle, ordering, or delivering, so many units. A perfectly neat mechanical problem. The operator of all this may be anywhere in the world. That is no longer consequential.
19 The great food and clothing distribution systems of necessity, like the mail order houses, with both store and mail (rapid air) delivery will acquire the credit or faith system and make annual contracts, competing against similar firms for the supply of individuals on a liberal ration basis. In these days of time control, when fruits or vegetables are always ‘‘in season’’ and of near perfection, the good faith of delivery of satisfactory product may be depended on. One person can eat but so much, and wear so much. The payment for this contract can be made directly from the company served by the individual, on an annual contract basis, to the company serving the individual. So will we attain the complete credit, no money, cycle.
20 Land mortgages will no longer have meaning. Second mortgages bring 18 to 20% today. Placing no value on the faith of mankind, and all on the land, they continually lose the capital stake, and must charge this high rate of interest to average a normal economical return. Straight credit loans, without even signature, at the lowest rate of interest, if sure of pay due to good faith, are becoming more and more the capital market practice, amongst the higher order of people. This will become the general practice when the feudal house, on the feudally mortgaged land, is gone. For exposition be it explained that; on a year’s contract, on the receiving end of our employing concern, we give one-day contact per month at SI ,000. per day, or $12,000. per year. The rest of the time is spent thinking, traveling, and gaining perspective: (our old friends - Research, Analysis, Design and Contact). We may take our food supplies at Bankok or Bangor from the National Pea Company, or Tears, Bohunk, on our annual contract. There is no coin exchange. Homes, ever on a more movable and lighter basis, even in time possibly air floating, like air houseboats, will be paid for out of the annual contract. This is as far as we need go, for the present, into coming events of the balance of time control by faith.
21 The greater the abstract ability of man, the greater his discomfiture on enforced self-consciousness in the presence of those who are very material, but what is it that puts a baby (almost completely material in control) to sleep.—Rhythm.— A rocking cradle, a song. It is on this common ground of rhythm (in all its fourth dimensional or sensorial forms), that the final meeting or melting point of material and spiritual takes place. Inasmuch as the materially controlled so jar on the mentally controlled, enforced association by the latter with the former, by the law of balance, can call forth but greater insight into abstract realms than the abstract activities, which have been ‘‘nicely’’ protected. The sweetest strawberries are found in the open field, not in the hothouse.
22 What can be more ludicrous than the 2nd Generation of beneficiaries of the new economics of individualism, apeing a feudalistic baronial system, two whole spheres below that on which it exists. Such ninnies waste their time and ours, (which is capital), indecently advertising themselves, in their attempt at a baronial name, by draping themselves over the more evident portions of the opera, so close to the music that they scarcely hear and much less heed it. With the music loving audience becoming greater and more abstract through wireless reception - those vainly attendant at the self-conscious city broadcasting chamber become more and more but stuffed shirts and skirts parading before their own reflections. The annual deficits of opera houses have greater economic meaning than the self advertising of the box holders who meet them. Surely they will not argue that there is visual harmony in the Victorian scenery or the physical forms of the singers. Such people will of course be more interested in fake antiques than the 4 D home. Such if continuing unenlightened will eventually become the sweepers in the warehouses of 4 D. We may pay them $100. a day. What will we care for money then. Such people have been the apostles of ‘‘hard work is good for everyone’’, but themselves. All must balance.
23 ‘‘Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us’’ is but a reasonable acknowledgment of the law of balance, which, unselfishly heeded, but speeds the way to economic advantage. Hitting back, or ‘‘smart comebacks’’ are feudal. They only indicate a bestially controlled mind and little mental guts. Without the latter, we may make no progress.
24 There will be those: ‘‘proud to say that I have never been in a flying machine, I have never been outside of Bunk County, I mind my own business, I don’t know what’s coming over people’’, such a mental laggard will, in time, be recognized as having an equally depressed brain to that of the so called ‘‘criminal’’ today, the childhood victim of feudal drudgery. Time, controlled, may efface such pressures on the material brain. To throw away a body (by execution) when we can remake it in seven years, (which with shortening time is
25 nothing) is just as economically wasteful as would be an Indian’s destroying a Rolls Royce, because he didn’t know how to run it. One may unfailingly depend on the urgings of the heart.
26 The feudalistic survival writers of Europe are decrying the ‘‘Americanization of the nations’’. This is well written of by Richard Washburn Child in an article entitled—‘‘Our Foreign Imitators’’. There is no consciousness of American, or other national border, in the inanimate safety razor or Ford car. There is no smallness of self-conscious national boundary in the individualism that purchases these products through their truth of being the ‘‘best’’, under the economic condition pertaining. In the complete independence of the new home will the last of feudalistic boundaries be erased. Never again will self-consciousness make wars of destruction. Those who have faith may read the progression. Those who have faith, mentality and character, will, thus enlightened, materially set their hand to its transcription.
27 If there is good philosophy in prevention of the public spread of disease, we must indeed talk of ‘‘spit’’ to prevent it. We must go further and remove the irritation that aggravates ‘‘spit’’. To be effective, it must be done with the harmony of laughter. Laughter is the great lubricant.
28 In the presence of the hovering death of a loved one, when breath means life, which means most: a ‘‘cartouche’’, or a ‘‘pullmotor’’? Could the sales representative of pullmotor company gain the permission of the American Institute of Architects to ‘‘spellbind’’ it, in ‘‘full body assembled’’, as they permit the representative of the Lime Stone Association, their heritage of the baronial patronage system, to address them. The ‘‘dirt’’ in our lives and thoughts will be removed when individualism has hurdled the last ditch of the self-conscious home and subdivision, and pulled away from the ‘‘dirty’’ control of selfish feudalism. It is terrible to have to criticize the ‘‘habits’’ of the architect so vividly. It is only his most decent ingeniousness that has been exploited as camouflage for the baronial stronghold under the guise of aestheticism. Fortunately, bitter negative criticism is impossible without a standpoint of creative cure. There is reason for all temporality. Limestone will be turned ever more to the immortalization of the living man which it has so long enshrouded awaiting its majority awakening. The State of Illinois consumed 800,000 tons of limestone for land sweetening in 1927.
29 ‘‘With charity for all, with malice towards none, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the Right, let us strive on.’’ May any lesser ‘‘business man’’ than Lincoln deny the necessity of God in his. material dealings? Can we decently plan so great a business as this without the broadest survey of God’s love?
30 Our present self-conscious architecture is the last barrier. It has nothing spiritually implied. It is all materially evident. It is still under the impression; that: only the bounty of a feudalistic baronial patronage can assuage the stigma of monetary gain, as an incentive to creative effort. The last of the feudalistic strongholds in plain dirt, stone, and clay, has constantly pulled the strings of aestheticism of this wooden puppet, long since dead in other arts. The others have become conscious of the billion-fold greater patronage of the world of individualism, waiting to economically enthrone the artist that designs recreatively for it. So have the meager artistic creations of the movies provoked millions of capital patronage in the world of individualism. There is here no money to taint, only participation in the impersonal competence of capital. The literally poor architects (99% paupers), must, in the name of the new truth, turn to the recreative housing of the living, instead of to the tailor-made sepulchres of the dead with its single payment. It would be the eternal wish of those gone before, that man stop patting the backs of the dead and recognize the ever greater artists of the living world, who, by virtue of the cumulative love and victories of those gone before, are unlimited in temporal creative ability, as long as they be alive. There is indeed individual regality in ‘‘royalties’’.
31 Only through unselfish recognition of the universal artistry in others, is the creative ability released within self. This by the law of balance, and vice versa.
32 Idols were at one period necessary to the revivication of faith while in formulatic prayer. Churches then supplanted the idol, in the days of feudalistic oppression, when it was necessary to actually see the neighbors, congregated together in common acknowledgment of the Almighty, to revive individual faith. To take part in the actual building of the church was soul inspiring. Today not one intelligent person exists that does not feel closer to God in the presence of a little child, than in the tailor-made church, where printed advertising rosters of the patrons of the church, conspicuous by their absence of a Sunday, are only outclassed in outrage to the senses, by the society column notices of the Easter day attendances of the annul religio-dilettante. In the circles of the ‘‘social register’’ that ever approximates the telephone book in size, what depths of religion are these, that ‘‘high pressure’’ together great funds for the immortalization of the architect, who egotistically admits that never in the world’s history has there been such fine architecture as that of today, and nowhere is that so fine as in America, and none so fine in America as its ecclesiastical effulgences, wrought almost exclusively by himself?
33 The new architecture will be turned to the canonization of the God in living man. The beast on earth no longer denying God, will heaven and earth blend into one, as self-consciousness diminishes.
34 So long as we refuse to admit the God in man on earth and credulously submit to the dogmas of our bestial past will there be death, due to the law of balance. Bestial supremacy must be balanced, in death, by spiritual supremacy. Harmoniously balanced in the universe, by unself-conscious recognition of both, temporality may attain eternity. The limits of faith are eternity.
35 The self-consciousness of bestial man can, in its own small oneness of the mass, conceive of God only as in its own likeness, while the completely developed individual, freed of all sect dogma and credo, and mindful of the temporal mask, which faith alone may pierce, perceives God as the great common spirit of love that compasses the universal sphere, the infinity beyond the stars, towards which we ever expand.
19.1 The Beginning: Rather than the end, for having started at dusk and traveled throughout the night do we not rest at Dawn? (A Footnote)
36We prefaced with the simile of the jeweler exhibiting his wears. Their material or intrinsic value has been progressively shown to be outdistanced by ‘‘ideas’’. Being the essence of materialism the jewels are ever more often left ‘‘in safety deposit’’ in favor of the equally decorative synthesis. The display of originals is being left to the race track tout or night club ‘‘gold digger’’. Gold, the old greed feeder, is now useful only for such purposes as stuffing the decaying beast’s tooth, etc. The supply of these ‘‘essences’’ may be limited, but for them there is no natural increase in demand.
37 Concurrent with the wedded laws of economics and good faith, under the single name of ‘‘Harmony’’, whose nuptials have herein been disclosed, has this business brochure been designed. Despite roughness of finish, it has been treated as an harmonious composition which must economically sustain its self-reproduction. Individuals must exchange capital for it in proportionate measure as it may save them time. It is a ‘‘step up’’ from the uncomposed segregated units of the periodical magazine which displays separately:—essays - poems - adventures - reviews - graphics - and ‘‘ads’’, - unbalanced.
38 There is much apparently ‘‘free’’ advertising, which we perceive in reality to have been truly earned. It presages a decent advertising form of the living artists and scholars, who have been to date commercially unsung.
39 This is the first of the multi-belles-lettres of harmonious truth which in the name of economics must supplant the myriad tons of daily mail that deservedly ends in the waste basket, unopened. With the diminution of politics and national boundaries brought about by 4 D houses, while individuals are graduated to universal citizenship, will these political agencies, which have well served their usefulness, be economically pensioned, by virtue of becoming international mail and express delivery companies, on a competitive basis. In so supporting themselves the trash which now ‘‘rides’’ the mails will be economically ousted.
40 This paper having been the balancing surge to the waves of critical remarks whose flood seems to have set forth the personality of their recipient as very much the exception to Listerine’s attempted negation ‘‘even your best friends won’t tell you’’, a clarification of some titles, quite often carelessly applied, is desired in closing.
41 A pessimist is one who "believes" the world to be rapidly diminishing to complete materialism, and looks only to the past with pleasure.
42 An optimist is one who "believes" in no fact of undelectable presence and looks only to the future for happiness.
43 An individual is one, who happy in the present time, perceives the relative progression of the spheres. Being unselfish, is he jealous of neither past nor future. Thus does he stay time.
44 For the formulist whose conceptions of English may have been wounded, is it querously remarked:—How long is a sentence? How long is an idea? How great is a sphere? It is hoped that such original formulists who have succeeded in reading thus far may have become thereby somewhat of a true individual. Inasmuch as the paper has removed many of the thorns of fallacy, has it not eliminated all necessity of Dr. Coue’s formula of assurance, that:—‘‘Day-by-Day, in every way, the world grows better and better’’.
45 For such as may be afraid that this foot note is rather anti-climaxial is it pointed out that neigher ‘‘anti’’ nor ‘‘climax’’ exist. This is rather the ‘‘beginning’’ of the reasonable progression of relative elimination of such inharmonies as mystics, intrinsics, aethetics, instincts, and all the other stinks.
46 Business of the new 4D house era is going to be damn good fun. Which further recalls, inasmuch as every other subject on the globe has been touched on, that there is no material ‘‘damning’’. What is may not be eliminated by temporal usurpation of God’s prerogotive. Blasphemy is of the mind as pertains to faith, and often belies itself in ‘‘words’’. Cussing, to be effective, should be conserved, as should all expletive or superlative. It is the product and trade mark of the lazy brain, bom of drudge fatigue. It is much indulged in by the feudalist who believes it to be a common language between himself and his would be slaves.
47 The price initiation of this new type publication must be left to the consumer after the manner of demand and supply of the stock market. In this first instance the abstract capital value of your written approbation might be underestimated, in worth to mankind, at one million per copy. That is, of course, a pre-quantity production price. All capital return for additional copies (movie or other broadcastings of the subject) will be applied to the economic organization of the 4 D Home industry. This industry shall eventually support all peoples of the earth. A pair of tickets for a Beaux-Arts Ball cost $25.00. What is the relative value of mental reactions. Certainly we have put up as good a ‘‘scrap’’ as Messrs. Tunney & Dempsey and have you not had a ringside seat?
48 With our revolving doors safely guarded by ‘‘General Good Faith’’ and his able lieutenants,
‘‘Father Time’’ and ‘‘Letters Patent’’, do we return to our laboratory. Here the main testing
units are the kitchenette and basinette, which must be after all the final proving ground of all
new elements and methods. In them may be perceived more advance market hope than on the
records of what has happened via the stock ticker. Safely ensconced there, may we offend no one
as we chant our own small but quite individual song, license by ‘‘the footnote’’. 
Change:
4950Faint heart ne’er won fair lady, holds true until the last,
51In the fearlessness of Children, lives all courage of the Past.
52All the brave hearts of the ages are at this Wedding Feast,
53And they’re dancing in the music for Lord West and Lady East.
54An Io! as we strike up the music, arrive the first of our guests.
55Some of them friends of the Easts, and some of them friends of the Wests.
56It is seen they all bear priceless presents which vary not in the least,
57They’ve standardized on ‘‘approbation’’, which delights both the Wests and the Easts.
58For aye they’ll remember this wedding when beauty converted the beast,
59And the Princess was wedded to Valour, joining Houses of West and East.