|
A country may be said to have notable conversation when the best ideas of the libraries and laboratories quickly get into the stream of common talk. The brotherhood of Christ requires that any good ideas be shared as quickly as possible and become an integral part of all human beings. This integration is not accomplished until the ideas come out of books into the talk and repartee of the people. Galileo published his earth-moves-around-the-sun theory way back in 1632. Two hundred years later, according to one anecdote, the young people of Illinois still thought the earth was flat. When one young man, Abe Lincoln, in his New Salem store started talking of the round, revolving earth, his young hearers shook their heads dubiously. But they repeated the strange theory to others — and now everybody in Illinois has been talked into knowing that the earth is round. |
|||
|
