¶ Rationalization Sequence
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Rationalization Sequence:
"clarified and susceptibility to self-hurt is diminished to the point of negligibility. Through rationalizations anyone may evolve solutions for any situations that may arise, and by the attainment of this ability through experience one obtains his license to be of service to mankind.
"Rationalization alone, however, is not sufficient. It is not an end in itself. It must be carried through to an objective state and materialize into a completely depersonalized instrument-- a ‘pencil.’ (Who knows who made the first pencil? Certainly not Eberhard Faber or ‘Venus.’) The pencil not only facilitates communication between men, by making thought specific and objective, but also enables men cooperatively, to plan and realize the building of a house, oxygen tent, flat iron, or an x-ray cabinet by virtue of the pencil’s availability. The inventor, alive or dead, is extraneous and unimportant; it is the ‘pencil’ that carries over. Abstract thought dies with the thinker, but the mechanism was building for a long time before the moment of recognized in-vention.
“The substance of this book develops my conviction of these truths. In a final chapter I have recorded certain thought-”
