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“In 1927 . . . it was very clear to me that the building world was the antipriority world and that it was run by ignorance. This was in contrast to the extraordinary new ability that was going into the building of navies . . . and into airplanes, into a new kind of navy of the air. The very highest capabilities of man were being invested in these and nothing was being invested in the direction of the house. I didn’t find any scientist working on the plumbing. The architects were getting some purple tile or some pink tile, and so forth, but no one was concerned with what goes on behind the wall. There have been no changes back of the wall for at least 3,000 years! Our homes are serviced today by the same sewerage system invented before the time of Christ. I felt that this kind of inattention to our home was responsible for the fact that our first child died. . . and Ifelt the conditions could have been controlled if the same kind of capability had been going in the direction of our life to make life a success, it might have been a success.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #2, p. 51. 2 Jul’62
