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Newton vs. Einstein:
"Beginning in 1917 I determined to make myself a guinea pig in a life-long research project, documenting the life of an individual born in the gay '90’s… having his boyhood during the turn of the century and maturing during humanity’s epochal graduation from the inert materialistic 19th into the dynamic, abstract 20th century.
"Had I the perceptivity at the time equal in magnitude to the scale of my intuitive prospecting of forward events this case-history era might have been more accurately identified as that which terminated Sir Isaac Newton’s normal at rest and myriadly isolated hybrid world cultures to which change was anathema on the one hand, and on the other, opened Einstein’s normally dynamic, omniintegrating world culture to which change has come to seem essential and popularly acceptable…
“The experience pattern of my generation was not to be just one more duplicate generation in a succession of millions of generations of humanity within an approximately imperceptible degree of environmental change as compared to the immediately previous generation. I was convinced that unannounced by any authority a much greater environmental and ecological change”
