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Only God knows how beautiful the brain of this man truly was.
Tesla establishes the human race in this publication as a figurative free body diagram that can be influenced to move in a positive direction by:
1. Increasing Mass | Human health and productivity as derived from nutrition, lifestyle, and education. He suggests, in the tone of a scrawny bookworm, that physical strength and the development of an objectively 'strong' human form is a bygone era - a dangerous equation that equates physical strength and development with wasting resources.
2. Decreasing Retarding Forces | Primarily: ignorance, conflict, and inefficient structures of government. Tesla suggests that knowledge and science alone have the potential to decrease these forces substantially. He chooses to quote Buddha in saying that ignorance is "the greatest evil in the world."
3. Increasing Accelerating Forces | Natural energy sources - solar in particular. This solution was the one I found most intriguing due to the original date of publication: 1900. It is also the solution Tesla focuses on the most for the remainder of his deliberation. He touches on his research into the atmospheric transmission of electrical energy without the use of wiring, oscillation, geothermal energy, Maxwellian theory, and laments the prejudice many hold against the safe, practical usage of electrical pressures in the scale of millions of volts.
Tesla was a man whose decline is heartbreaking and whose inventions, when mentioned, summon forces few have the resources to counter. He is a coffee that can only be had with its grinds. What leaves me with a bittersweet taste is not these grinds, however - but Tesla's own decay - which I believe was most honorably eulogized in his own words:
"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes with the poet who says:
Daily work my hands' employment,
To complete is pure enjoyment!
Let, oh, let me never falter!
No! there is no empty dreaming:
No! these trees, but bare poles seeming,
Yet will yield both food and shelter!
Goethe's 'Hope', 1789."
Tesla establishes the human race in this publication as a figurative free body diagram that can be influenced to move in a positive direction by:
1. Increasing Mass | Human health and productivity as derived from nutrition, lifestyle, and education. He suggests, in the tone of a scrawny bookworm, that physical strength and the development of an objectively 'strong' human form is a bygone era - a dangerous equation that equates physical strength and development with wasting resources.
2. Decreasing Retarding Forces | Primarily: ignorance, conflict, and inefficient structures of government. Tesla suggests that knowledge and science alone have the potential to decrease these forces substantially. He chooses to quote Buddha in saying that ignorance is "the greatest evil in the world."
3. Increasing Accelerating Forces | Natural energy sources - solar in particular. This solution was the one I found most intriguing due to the original date of publication: 1900. It is also the solution Tesla focuses on the most for the remainder of his deliberation. He touches on his research into the atmospheric transmission of electrical energy without the use of wiring, oscillation, geothermal energy, Maxwellian theory, and laments the prejudice many hold against the safe, practical usage of electrical pressures in the scale of millions of volts.
Tesla was a man whose decline is heartbreaking and whose inventions, when mentioned, summon forces few have the resources to counter. He is a coffee that can only be had with its grinds. What leaves me with a bittersweet taste is not these grinds, however - but Tesla's own decay - which I believe was most honorably eulogized in his own words:
"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes with the poet who says:
Daily work my hands' employment,
To complete is pure enjoyment!
Let, oh, let me never falter!
No! there is no empty dreaming:
No! these trees, but bare poles seeming,
Yet will yield both food and shelter!
Goethe's 'Hope', 1789."
