Spencer Heath Archive

Item 384

Taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath.

July 28, 1954?

Original is in white envelope for item 383

Here’s quite an article In the Readers’ Digest about Jules Verne, all the things he Imagined that were later on made realities, like “submarines, airplanes, neon lights, moving sidewalks, air conditioning, skycrapers, guided missies, tanks.” He suggests your picture of men being able to build their dreams into their environment. He said, “What one man can imagine, another man can do.”

I’ll make it even stronger than that. I’ll say that men cannot dream that which they cannot do. And the dream is the first putting out of energy towards it own fulfill­ment. This of course refers to race or folk dreams and not to those which are merely casual to the individual.