¶ Chronofile
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Chronofile:
"Most children like to collect things. At four I started to collect documents of my own development as correlated with world patterns of developing technology. Beginning in 1917, I determined to employ my already rich case history, as objectively as possible, in documenting the life of a suburban New Englander, born in the Gay Nineties (1895)-- the year automobiles were introduced, the wireless telegraph and the automatic screw machine were invented, and X-rays were discovered; having his boyhood in the turn of the century; and maturing during humanity’s epochal graduation from the inert, materialistic 19th into the dynamic 20th century. I named my documentation the Chronofile.
“As the era of this case history loomed into greater perspective for me, as readable in the Chronofile, it became more accurately identifiable as that which, on the one hand, terminated Sir Isaac Newton’s normally ‘at rest’ world of myriadly and remotely isolated hybrid cultures, to which change was anathema; and, on the other, opened Einstein’s normally ‘dynamic’ omni-integrating world culture to which change has come to seem evolutionarily inevitable.”
¶ Citations
- Citizen of 21st. Century, (U. or O, Chap. 1), 1 Apr’67
