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second place the Martians partake of food to keep the body alive,
and not for the vulgar pleasure afforded by the consumption of
victuals. We eat to live: whereas most of your Earth tenants
live to eat.
Although each individual has his particular place in the universe
where he will excel in some kind of activity, there being no two
persons in all Creation exactly alike, the student on Mars is
given an opportunity to obtain a broad and comprehensive
knowledge relating to all subjects, both material and spiritual.
The study of matter, divided as it is into a number of elements,
offers an interesting field for study and research work, as does
also its concomitant Cosmic Energy.
Compared to your Earth, industry on Mars, by the aid of
labor-saving devices is perfect: and as a consequence the use of
energy is considerable, especially so in the realm of Synthetic
Chemistry. But it must be understood that the individual is
taught that dependence must be placed rather on one's own
dexterity, born of that God-given faculty of Intuition, than on
the perfectness of a man-made machine, the creation of finite
mind.
For it has so happened to races on other planets that complete
degeneration and final extinction has come about by the entire
dependence of the individual and afterwards of the entire race,
on machinery to do the work required of the individual by the
Creator, such dependence finally terminating in almost complete
atrophy of the worker's intuitional faculties.
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