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Upon the premise that the sumtotal human desire to survive is dominant over the sumtotal of the impulse to destroy, this book is designed. it does not seek to provide a formula to attainment. To do so would develop dogma and nullify the process of individual rationalization that is utterly essential for growth.
"Rationalization is an act similar to walking through a half-frozen, marshy, unexplored country to mark out a trail that others may eventually follow. It involves not only the familiar one-two progression of shifting the weight and balance from one foot to the other, but an unknown quantity progression of selective testing to avoid treacherous ground before putting full weight upon the forward foot.
"Rationalization is a time-word to replace ‘thinking,’ which is an ancient, mystically evolved word tentatively signifying an attempt to force the power of god into one’s self. Rationalization connotes a constant, selective balancing of relative values, gained from experience, for the purpose of harmonious, inclusive recomposition and subsequent extension.
¶ Citations
- NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p. ix, 1938
