I Luv Fountain head for the following lines :
""Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light. He was
considered an evildoer who had dealt with a demon mankind dreaded. But
thereafter men had fire to keep them warm, to cook their food, to light their
caves. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had lifted darkness
off the earth. Centuries later, the first man invented the wheel. He was
probably torn on the rack he had taught his brothers to build. He was considered
a transgressor who ventured into forbidden territory. But thereafter, men could
travel past any horizon. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he
had opened the roads of the world.
"That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every
legend mankind has recorded about its beginning. Prometheus was chained to a
rock and torn by vultures--because he had stolen the fire of the gods. Adam was
condemned to suffer--because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that
its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads
armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had
this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed,
and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the
artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their
time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was
denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered
impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered
sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered
and they paid. But they won.
No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers
rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of
their lives. His truth was his only motive. His own truth, and his own work to
achieve it in his own way. A symphony, a book, an engine, a philosophy, an
airplane or a building--that was his goal and his life. Not those who heard,
read, operated, believed, flew or inhabited the thing he had created. The
creation, not its users. The creation, not the benefits others derived from it.
The creation which gave form to his truth. He held his truth above all things
and against all men.
"His vision, his strength, his courage came from his own spirit. A man’s spirit,
however, is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel,
to judge, to act are functions of the ego.
The creator’s concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite’s concern is the
conquest of men.
"The creator lives for his work. He needs no other men. His primary goal is
within himself. The parasite lives second-hand. He needs others. Others become
his prime motive.
"The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work
under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to
any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in
motive. To a creator, all relations with men are secondary.
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