Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/470

German. The Germans are philosophers; the Germans are the rationalists who set out to explore the types. So their monsters in the last war were social monsters, rationalized, mechanized—just as the total of all machinery expresses the total understanding to this date that society has of the functioning of the body. As we learn more about the mind we have IBM machines, calculators, automation, cybernetics. Invention comes from our deep penetration into the understanding of our body.