y 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.

This calamity will surely overtake your future generations if a halt is
not called on the over-zealous adoption of automatic machines for most
every line of industrial activity. You are now getting to the stage
where the most simple and elementary mathematical problems are solved
by merely pressing a few buttons or turning a crank, the operator
understanding little or nothing of the fundamentals underlying the
solution of the problems in hand. This means, in the near future,
brain atrophy through disuse.

And so with other lines of industrial activity. Not one among a
thousand workers engaged in making shoes can do other than make a heel
or perform some simple operation, one of hundreds of units in the
completion of a pair of shoes. And perhaps it would be impossible to
find one individual whose intuitional faculties were developed to the
extent that he could turn out the perfect, completed article.

In order to explain how far we have succeeded on Mars in harnessing a
mighty universal force to the end of utilizing the same in turning our
factory wheels, lighting our domiciles and giving warmth to our homes
in winter, it might not be amiss to state a few facts concerning our
knowledge of matter and energy.

We have learned that material life simply amounts to functioning in an
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