I need to open today's show with an excerpt from a 1943 novel, just so we are on the same page.

Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the

stake he had taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift

they had not conceived, and he lifted darkness off the earth. Throughout the centuries, there

were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The

great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, stood alone against the men of their time.

Every new thought was opposed.

Every new invention was denounced.

The first motor was considered foolish.

The airplane was considered impossible.

Anesthesia was considered sinful.

But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead, they fought, they suffered, and they paid.

But they won.

No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered.

His truth was his only motive.

His own work, in his own way, that was his goal.

The creation, not its users, the creation, not the benefits others derived from it.

His vision, his strength, his courage came from his own spirit.

A man's spirit, however, is his self, that entity, which is his consciousness.

To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego. The creators are not selfless. The creator

served nothing and no one. He lived for himself. And only by living for himself was he able

to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. Such is the nature of achievement. Man cannot survive except through his mind,

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