Having decided, during the year of 1907, that the time had arrived to put into the minds of the people that air transportation could be realized, I established, in 1908, the magazine FLY for the purpose of enlightening the world about it. Then in 1910 I established the magazine AIRCRAFT for the same purpose.

In those days I told the people that they must get off of the earth if they wanted to grow up.

Of course, nobody took my words seriously, not even the pioneers who were trying to persuade little playthings made of calico, wires and bamboo sticks to carry them into the air a few feet for exhibition purposes.

So it is a wonder that my friends did not have me put into an insane asylum when I announced the inauguration of an aircraft industry and airline service.

During that year all of my old friends deserted me after they learned that I had given up accumulating wealth for the introduction of such a “crazy idea.”

In those days people could not understand why a practical business man should prefer to give up his chances to “get rich” just to establish “the visionary notion of flying.”

Neither could the people understand, a quarter of a century later, why, after having helped to create a successful aircraft industry and airline service, I did not cash in on it and get rich but preferred to give my time and efforts, without pay, to educate the people in other ways.

The people do not realize that man’s real wealth is on the inside of him, not on the outside. They do not know that one good thinking menorg in the brain is worth more to man than all of the wealth that he can accumulate.

Mentality is the only material worth accumulating and one cannot have more of that than can be absorbed by a well developed mental system.

Well, while editor of Aircraft I wrote an article for that magazine in which I told the readers of a new type of man that would eventually be evolved after the people learned to construct flying machines that would carry them high up into the air.

This coming high-flyer I called the “Altitude Man.”

The complete article was re-published in the book “The Airliner and Its Inventor,” as well as having been copied in other publications as is everything else that I write about.

The Altitude Man gave a little insight of my idea of being able to change the density of a human being. I showed how it would be possible for men to live on great floats at the top of the air instead of living at the bottom of the air as crabs live at the bottom of the sea.

Therein lies the key to the changing of man’s density.

At the bottom of the air man must have greater density than if he lived at the top of it. He must have sufficient weight to keep his body from being forced off of the crust of the earth and being pushed upward by heavier substances that are drawn down towards the center of the earth by the power of suction.

The menorgs have balanced present man so that he can stick to the crust of the earth permanently and still move away from it momentarily when walking or running by the force of interior pressure exerted within his muscular system.

The farther from the crust of the earth man goes the less air pressure surrounds his body. So if he would go far enough away from it then the gases within his body would over-balance the pressure of the air from without and he would explode.

For that reason if man would live at the top of the atmosphere he must be of lesser density than if he lives at the bottom of it.

Another thing, the body of man would have to be reconstructed in order to live in space of lesser density and different proportions of substances. For instance there is very little oxygen for man to breathe near the top of the atmosphere and so his lungs would have to be reconstructed which would also necessitate the reconstruction of all of his other organs as well.

Yes, man can carry his oxygen along with him for short trips into high altitudes and he can also construct an air-tight room that will withstand reasonable pressure from within but that would be an unnatural way to live.

The natural way for man to live at the top of the atmosphere is to gradually reconstruct his body to a lesser density as I outlined in my article published in Aircraft Magazine a quarter of a century ago. Then build the float upon which he will live so that it will stay up there permanently.

Reconstructed man would have to live up there permanently as his lesser density body would be crushed to death if it came down into the heavier air pressure below.

These things I am calling to the attention of the reader now because with the study of LAWSONOMY the people’s minds are going to be developed to such a remarkable extent that they will want to do remarkable deeds in the future. They will want to expand their consciousness by getting off of the earth to study the wonders of the cosmic regions, by practical experience and not by theoretical misinformation. Such practical students will not want to live as crabs forever.

As far as my vision can be extended there is nothing that I see to prevent man from developing himself to a greater being and constructing huge bodies to carry him away from the earth and far out into the heavens, unless it is his own infernal piggishness that forces him to continue to tear down the body of humanity for petty individual purposes.

I have given considerable thought to a plan by which can be designed, built and operated a huge cosmic animal in which would be used human beings as supervisors instead of menorgs.

Naturally the first cosmic animal would not be very large but eventually it would evolve greater proportions and perfections in a comparative way as man was developed by menorgs.

BUT, unfortunately the world at the present time has not the natural intelligence to understand such a plan.

Practical experience has taught me that humanity must be led into unknown pursuits by very short steps and that the originator of advanced plans is usually forgotten long before the world gets the benefit of them.

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