1:02:02
On the contrary! It absolutely proves what l have always felt. We are located in an apparently uniform space with no visible limits. We are just now beginning to push back the clouds of ignorance and perceive the truth. We must continue the search.
1:02:16
I have always tended to believe that this kind of knowledge is all well and good in its place, but anything can be taken too far, and when you've got everyone looking off into telescopes and not tending to business right here, then, l believe, we have gone too far.
1:02:59
The sighting of a fixed point beyond our confines is fundamental to all other problems and issues. It would instantly determine whether we are, whether this world is, in fact, moving or standing still.
1:03:11
I have been thinking seriously recently about the role we are expected to play as individuals and as a unit within the broader outlines of society.
1:03:13
Each of us, of course, feels very strongly as an individual, but l think we could all agree that there is something here that binds us all together. In this way, we are a whole made up of different parts. But in the way that each of us relates to all of us together, all of us together are but a part of society as a whole.
1:03:16
Now l come to my point: each one of us can be in unity with the rest only if there is a leader who can the unifying. When Posterity judges our actions here it will perhaps see us not as unwilling prisoners, but as men who, when faced with the choice, preferred, for whatever reason, to remain as non-contributing individuals on the fringe of society. We must not let this happen, gentlemen. The choice is there, make no mistake about it!
1:03:20
We must first choose a leader to unite us together, and then venture out and return once more as contributing and vital members of the greater organism of society.
1:03:24
Aha!
1:03:29
... because of the great pressure and bad air, they never attain a height greater than four feet although some of them are ferocious fighters and show great courage and skill. Whether they are descendants of those who lost themselves in the superstructure, or whether they are actually a separate race, no one can tell. They depend on their strange appearance and peculiar smell to fend off any intruders, and they make the city shell a most unpleasant place in which to be lost. The authorities tolerate a moderate amount of them at any one time, but they must be kept under control with occasional sweep campaigns, which is probably where this one came from.
1:03:38
Because of the great pressure and bad air, they never attain...
1:03:42
I've got it! Astounding!
1:03:45
What?
1:03:51
No one could have imagined anything one-thousandth as fantastic as the sober facts uncovered by patient inquiry. This world is in a state of static-mobility:we are at the same time moving and standing still.
1:03:56
That's the most ridiculous thing l've ever heard.