Subj : New Ground?
To   : All
From : Kevin Gibson
Date : Wed May 23 2001 07:56 am

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 "The outcome of our ventures in space must await the verdict of history;
 certainly we will witness, on a scale their author never imagined, the
 testing of Toynbee's laws of `Challenge and response'.  In this context,
 these words from the abridged _Study of History_ are well worth
 pondering: `Affiliated civilizations... produce their most striking
 early manifestations in places outside the area occupied by the
 "parent" civilizations.  The superiority of the response evoked by
 new ground is most strikingly illustrated when new ground has to be
 reached by a sea-passage... Peoples occupying frontier positions,
 exposed to constant attack, achieve a more brilliant development
 than their neighbours in more sheltered positions.'

 Alter `sea' to `space' and the analogy is obvious..."



                                 Excerpted from:

                                  "Rocket to Renaissance"
                                  Profiles of the Future
                                  by Arthur C. Clarke




.... Space: Outer, Inner, Cyber and The Abyss

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