[095]of men and galaxies(4)

[Day 715 2016-09-10] Lesson 45-4 Of men and galaxies

Twenty or thirty pages of information handed to any of the major world powers around the year 1925 would have been sufficient to change the course of world history. It is a strange thought, but I believe a correct one, that twenty or thirty pages of ideas and information would be capable of turning the present-day world upside down, or even destroying it. I have often tried to conceive of what those pages might contain, but of course I cannot do so because I am a prisoner of the present-day world, just as all of you are. We cannot think outside the particular patterns that our brains are conditioned to, or, to be more accurate, we can think only a very little way outside, and then only if we are very original.

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生詞：

1.prisoner(n.)牢犯、戰俘

2.original(n.)原稿;(adj.)獨到見解的