A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation; it is a being endowed with the greatest degree of excitement, yet free at the same time from all passion and emotion. It is therefore not only a slave, but a supernatural slave. And why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathers, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns. It moves with more regularity than humans. And has it not a voice? I feel a me which senses something outside of me. Consciousness, in other words, is the awareness that the ego has of itself and of a separate, independently existing reality. There is an internal consciousness in the ego where the Universal ideas are proved by inner experience that the conscious ego can only be the effect of a divine intelligent cause, invariable and absolute, also attests the validity of casual relations. True knowledge, knowledge which is adequate to reality, consists in rearranging, by real synthesis, the objective unities of beings just as they are. The existence of God, proves that the self-evident relationships are valid. We are free and that makes us feel the necessity of moral good and thus the presence of a natural moral law: our duty is affirmed to us by our inner most sense. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

The wayfarer in the toilsome path of human life sees, with each returning Sun, some new obstacle to surmount, some new height to be attained. Distances stretched out before one which, last night, were scarcely taken into account, and the light which glides all nature with its cheerful beams, seems but to shine upon the weary obstacles that yet lie strewn between one and the grave. Things feel different here. The guys have always been friendly to me, but I was not close with anyone aside from Harry. I felt this constant nagging need to compete and best each and every one of them. However, now I realize we are all on the same times. I might even find a friend or two. This is something new for me. I know, I know, hard to believe that with my sparkling personality and unerring sense of humor I would not be the most popular guy on campus, but I have always been one of those who has many acquaintances but few friends. Now I feel the camaraderie I have always read about. Anybody’s life may be just as romantic and strange and interesting if he or she fails as if he or she succeed. All the difference is, that the last chapter is wanting in the story. To one that lives well every form of life is good, nor can there be given any other rule for choice than to remove from all apparent evil. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

It used sometimes to be asked: What has posterity done for me that I should do anything for posterity? The question was wrongly put. Posterity is only another name for humankind, and when we pose the question rightly there can be no dispute about the answer. If we put aside the part that belongs to Nature or to God, we owe everything to Humankind. All that we are, and all that we possess in civilization, we owe to the everlasting aspiration and struggle of our ancestors before us, and to the slow accumulation of knowledge and art on the topmost level of which we now stand. Our immense debt to Humanity in the past can only be repaid to Humankind in the future. It is our privilege, if we do not regard it as our duty, to pass on, in ever finer shapes, the great traditions which have been handed to us. These traditions in the matter of the procreation of the race takes the form generally termed marriage. It is a form which from the first has been constantly varying its shape, but its most frequent shape has throughout been that of father, mother, and child, all three which units, as we all the community to which they belong, have generally found it suits them well to continue through the early life of the child, while even when the offspring is able to take care of itself the two parents have frequently found it to be their own comfort and joy to continue living together. #RandolpHarris 3 of 9

When the heart speaks, the soul listens. Love is an intellectual pleasure, and even the senses will be weakly affected where the heart is silent. Be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised. Prove yourself true ere I cherish you. Every complete man embraces some of the qualities of a woman, for Nature does not mean that gender shall be more than a partial separation of one common humanity; otherwise we should be too much divided to be companionable. Here we have, in a fairly permanent form. Marriage, even if by no means necessarily indissoluble, the family, and the hose, even if by no means hermetically closed. For the evil of the house has been, in part, that it was closed to currents of fresh air, and in part that we had too much of it; of precious things one must not have too much. All these related phenomena—marriage, the family, and the house—have in recent years, as we know, the subject of fierce and brilliant attack. It is almost a commonplace to say that such an institution as the family is not necessarily a permanent part of human social life, and that soon marriage in the present meaning on the word as the foundation of the family life will have ceased to exist. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

We have become a comically rich yet emotionally raw romantic drama like a family of writers who have lost the plot of our own love stories. Even amidst the travails of marriage, divorce, parenting and coming of age, the family ties that trip us up can turn into a lifeline. When we have recovered from our dizziness at its apparent disappearance and our gasps of horror have subsided, and we open our eyes again, the family will be seen to be still there, a little cleaner, a little more truthful, a little happier. Social idealists tend to minimize the sex as an important part of life indeed, but still only part. On account of the housing difficulty, the break-up of the family as a permanent institution is often not ideal. A certain amount of communal family life exists, while there is immense development of the hygienic, educational, and recreational elements. Not only are marriage institutions so deeply rooted in Human’s nature as to be essential, but in spite of their rather archaic character, it is almost certain that they still perform a necessary and beneficial part in the process of psychical development—a part for which no adequate substitute could easily be found. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

We now live in a society were men and women can face each other in equal economic independence and all motives for marriage have fallen into the background, with the exception of love, which will be more and more the only determining motive that can induce a man and a woman or a same sex couple to deny their freedom and bind themselves permanently to one another. We may not regard love as the self-sufficient motive for marriage in so far as marriage involve procreation. Yet, if the foundation of marriage seems so solid, even to one who regards it as a denial of freedom and bondage, how much more for those who find in it no such denial and no such bondage! It is ultimately a merely verbal concept or device, seeking to bridge the gap between internal or mental processes and physical actions by, as it were, inserting a hyphen between them. However, it will not bear the weight it is meant to carry, and as a result, the system as a whole remains merely suspended between idealism and naturalism. Because the World has been created by a benevolent deity and yet wallows in misery, humans have obviously failed to carry out the divine plan. The plan is for happiness to replace misery, unity to replace division, Harmony should replace Civilization. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

Consciousness is aware not only of its own existence but of the consciousness of others. Altruism is a necessity, since isolation is impossible; moral choice is attractive or repulsive power of idees-forces in the form of ideals; and ethical conduct is defined in terms of social beneficence. The transformation from Civilization to Harmony would occur through the release of Human’s thirteen passions, instilled by God but repressed in Civilization: the five sense; the four group, or social, passions of ambition, friendship, love, and family feeling; the three series, or distributive, passions, that is, the cabalist, or passion for intrigue, the papillone (butterfly), or passion for diversification, and the composite or passion for harmony, which synthesizes all the others. With the passion released, existence would become intense joy, and a lifetime would seem but a moment. The World is created anew for every person who is in love. There is therefore this constant miracle of a new Heaven and a new Earth. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

To accomplish the release of the passions, humanity would have to be organized into phalanxes of about eight hundred men, women, and children. In each phalanx different characters and inclinations would be scientifically combined in a complex and finely graded system of groups and series so that each person could give full expression, in his or her work and in one’s other activities, to all our passions, tastes, and capacities, and avoid everything that does not suit us. The economies accomplished by communal work and living by finding the right place for every talent, and the enormous enthusiasms and energies mobilized by the new order, would make phalanxes extremely successful economically as well as in terms of human happiness. Indeed, a single trial phalanx would prove its absolute superiority within a few weeks or, at the most months and, through imitation, abolish Civilization in a year or two. Moreover, the savages and barbarians who had stubbornly resisted civilization would eagerly join Harmony. The result would be one World of happy phalanxes, linked vaguely be a hierarchy of monarchs and more effectively by temporary industrial armies for special tasks and similar touring bands, poets, actors, and musicians. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

Because the World was one, the coming of Harmony would lead to new, beneficial creations on Earth and would result in the appearance of new satellites, in the regaining of healthy by our planet, and in more distant desirable cosmic repercussions. Moral people believe that Harmony will establish truth as well as happiness among humans, for truth rather than deception and hypocrisy would then become the profitable and accepted way of life. We will retain some private property, and inequality and discord are necessary for the construction of graded series and groups and the exercise of all passions. That is the only way to create a society where every individual whim would be satisfied. Why should people have to put up with people who love crime and conflict? By grouping people together by what they like then we would avoid this. Repression of passions are the source of all evil, as well as the foundation of Civilization, and this World is currently an insane place of repressed passions. God has sent us to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, to comfort all who mourn, and provide those who grieve a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9