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TODAY! It brings you in a boiled down, terse way, the real CAUSES
that brought about Rome's fall. And we in America and the western
world are drifting at an accelerated pace into those same evils!
But, are we not living in the most advanced civilization
ever? Today science and technology dangle before our eyes a
glittering glamour world of their making. It is to be a fantastic
push-button dream world of "the three L's" -- Leisure, Luxury,
and License. They are beginning to produce unbelievable devices
that will convert this world into a glorified heaven.
Yes, but on the other hand we are traveling the high-
road that brought Rome to its FALL.
Two years ago, from our campus in England, I wrote a
letter to all PLAIN TRUTH subscribers a few hours after watching,
on television, a human foot step down on the moon for the third
time. That started a train of thought. On the one hand I had
to reflect on the question: How TREMENDOUSLY GREAT is the human
mind? Not only can it devise and produce the means of flying to
the moon and back -- but also all the marvelous intricate
mechanisms -- such as the modern computer! Yet man has been unable
to solve his own problems here on earth! And today people are
becoming more and more concerned over these problems and evils.
People are bewildered!
With such fantastic MIND-power (and The PLAIN TRUTH will
begin a remarkable series of articles, with the January number,
on the vast difference between the human mind, and animal brain,
a report on advanced studies in the new science of brain research,
complementing the series in LIFE magazine on the human brain) --
with all this incredible MIND-power -- with all the vast
accumulation of KNOWLEDGE, man still has not brought world PEACE,
happiness, universal abundant well-being.
Science has not produced it -- nor government, nor
religion, nor education, nor sociology. As I wrote then, the
crying need of this hour is a VOICE that can explain WHY -- that
can POINT THE WAY!
And The PLAIN TRUTH is that VOICE!
For every effect there has to be a CAUSE! Human
civilization seems always to be ignoring the CAUSE and trying to
eradicate the EFFECT. World War I was at the time called the war
to END all wars. But wars do not abolish more wars.
WORLD PEACE can come only by knowing the CAUSE of peace,
and applying it!
By the thousands, readers of The PLAIN TRUTH are beginning
to understand some of the BASICS of right KNOWLEDGE -- the CAUSES
of peace, happiness, abundant well-being. They are learning THE
WAY that MAKES SENSE -- that WORK in their own lives. Lives are
being turned right side up. Lives are being enriched. They are
finding the TRUE VALUES, discarding the false. They are learning