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Nationalization Sequence:
"processes and results of abstract intuitive thinking which would be obscure without reading the preceding sections. The reason for exposing myself to possible suspicion of ‘mysticism’ is to show how important it is to transcribe the faint thought messages coming into our personal cosmos at the time of occurrence-- sketchy and puzzling though they may be-- because time, if well served, will turn them into monkey-wrenches and gas torches.
"The title ‘Nine Chains to the Moon’ was chosen to encourage and stimulate the broadest attitude toward thought. Simultaneously, it emphasizes the littleness of our Universe from the mind viewpoint. A statistical cartoon would show that if, in imagination, all of the people of the world were to stand upon one another’s shoulders, they would make nine complete chains between the Earth and the Moon. If it is not so far to the Moon, then it is not so far to the limits-- whatever, whenever, or wherever they may be.
“Limits are what we have feared. So much has been done to make us conscious of our infinite physical smallness that the time has come to dare to include the complete Universe in our”
