Excerpt from a keynote address given by Lyndon LaRouche on Sept. 2, 2000 to the annual Labor Day weekend conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees and the Schiller Institute.
Full transcript available here: https://larouchepub.com/lar/2000/2736_storm_over_asia_ii.html
What kind of actions can we take, which the universe acknowledges to be a command?
Well, typical of those kinds of acts that we make--which we can prove, the universe will obey, otherwise the universe won't obey them--are actions which conform to the discovery of a universal physical principle. If you can discover a validated, universal physical principle, and you can give that, as an order to the universe, the universe will obey. Man is the only creature that can do that! That can formulate an order, called a universal physical principle, validate that discovery, and issue that discovery as an order, a command, to the universe, and the universe is compelled to obey.
That is the means, the accumulation of these principles, which are part of our technological culture, is the means by which mankind has been able to increase the life-expectancy, to improve the demographic characteristics of populations, and, in general, to increase man's power, measurable power, in and over the universe, per capita and per square kilometer. That's the great, scientific experiment.
We are able to do this, not only through physical experiments, through physical discovery: We're able to do this, by discovering higher levels of methods of social cooperation, through which, we're able to cooperate in fostering these kinds of discoveries, and applying them.
So, those things. Those are the kinds of actions, which the universe acknowledges to be man's willful actions of significance. Everything else that man does, is on the level that any lower form of animal life can accomplish.
So, therefore, the kinds of action which distinguish a human being from lower forms of animal life, is that, and only that.
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