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Child Sequence:
“There’s no question about it: Man is looking for meaning. I think our young world is discontented with what they were told by religions, and their dogmatic interpretations, and the assumed identity of the significance of the experience which came along with religion. They’re getting out from under, very much as a child. A little child and a great scientist both want experimental information, they don’t want axioms, they don’t want dogma, they want to find out their own. (Tearing a piece of tissue paper.)… Does this hold together? Can I hold on to that when I’m falling? No I can’t. I’ve got to find out. A child is apt to find out very directly and personally. He’s not going to believe anything anybody says. ‘You just hold on to that and it won’t tear.’ The child says, ‘I’m going to find out whether it tears or not by ripping it.’ So the child is a scientist. Society in its great ignorance has been subject to the most powerful leader. The leader said, ‘All right, gentlemen, I’m running this place. These are the rules and you’ve got to get on, and I like this minister and he’s got a religion that suits me fine. And you all catch on.’ In the past people have buckled down in an extraordinary way and are more or less accustomed to not doing their own thinking. They’ve found that thinking got”
