LET US REASON TOGETHER

but no one's saying there is no progress ... indeed victory implies it ... but it may come suddenly after a long wait ... or it may come slowly bit by bit only ... or it may come both of these as one ... an uphill road past heroic stations and monuments ... high ways and low ways running together ... war on one ... trade on the other ... destruction and increase ... ruin and creation ... or at least recreation ... who wouldn't pick the one over the other yet who is it that can ... consistently ... well if not consistently let's do it persistently ... honor the general but pay the merchant ... prepare for battle but negotiate a trade agreement ... and one thing only common to them both soldier and capitalist the measured reasoned refinement of technique ... while all the world labors and groans technology improves ... while people live and die the generations learn ... not only how but why peace is better than war ... not just why but how thought and truth open to the right conclusion 3/3