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And I'm going to
say it in my own words, but his words are eloquent. But in my own words it was
that for the first time in history, the main form of wealth will not be land,
as it had been -- even in the Homestead Act, 70 acres -- but the intelligence,
the ideas, the insights that led people to treat their land or anything else in
a new way.
The main cause of
wealth would be the head. I like to say caput. The root term for capital - the
discovery, invention.
Lincoln talks about
how the man who discovers a new strain of seed for grass and develops a kind of
grass that is richer and better and more nourishing than other types, can
improve somebody's crop six fold or eight fold, and that new wealth sprang from
the mind. And therefore the earth is much richer than we think it is because
God gave us minds to improve.
God invited human
beings to take part in his own creation. To be co-creators with God and bring
out of the earth things that lie fallow and hidden there.
(Voiceover) Ideas
matter more than ever before and it's astonishing how many things are born in
someone's mind and something comes to be that was never there.
Ideas are really
very, very powerful. And if you think about it ... that's what capitalism is.
It's the first system organized around the mind, around invention and
discovery.
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