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Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft Spring 2003 $5.00 Bernhard Riemann extended Gauss’s idea of surfaces to a more general concept of manifold. As new principles are added, the geodesics of the manifold are transformed. The Catenary, defined principle. Just as a hanging From Brunelleschi to LaRouche chain is self-supporting in its whole and its parts, the Dome, whose chain hanging freely forms a curvature was guided by it, is likewise Aunique shape, which, like a self-supporting surface, in its whole Brunelleschi’s Dome, is self-supporting and its parts. in its whole and its parts. This can be A word of caution is warranted to demonstrated experimentally, by those Aristoteleans who demand to hanging a chain between two freely ‘see’ the physical shape of the moving pulleys. The chain will find catenary in the final shape of the only one stable ‘orbit’ between the Dome. Although Brunelleschi pulleys, but once in that orbit, it will be employed a form of the principle of very stable—a characteristic that least-action which Leibniz and Lyndon LaRouche has likened to the Bernoulli later discovered was principle of ‘frozen motion’ exhibited in expressed by the catenary, the Greek classical sculpture. features of the Dome are not in the While this characteristic was shape of a hanging chain. As known to the ancient Greeks, as well LaRouche has made clear, it is, as to Brunelleschi, the principles rather, the principle of least-action underlying it were not fully elaborated expressed by the hanging chain, as that until G.W. Leibniz and Johann principle was later developed in Bernoulli discovered them more than Gauss’s theory of surfaces, Riemann’s a century later. Using Leibniz’s theory of manifolds, and LaRouche’s calculus, they demonstrated that the principles of physical economy, which catenary was that shape which shaped the Dome. equalized the physical tension at every The beauty of the Dome point. demonstrates the truth of Brunelleschi’s Brunelleschi used a hanging chain discovery, but it would take the to guide the development of the discoveries of Kepler, Fermat, Leibniz, curvature of the Dome at each stage of Gauss, Riemann, and LaRouche to construction. Thus, the overall shape fully grasp the underlying principle. of the Dome was determined, not by a Dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, curvature defined by abstract Florence, Italy, constructed by Filippo Brunelleschi. mathematics, but by a physically [SEE ‘The Long Life of the Catenary’] Examples of Riemannian mappings. An arbitrary loopy curve is seen with respect to a manifold of changing geodesic. FIDELIO "It is through beauty that one proceeds to freedom." -Friedrich Schiller Vol. XII, No.1 Spring 2003 4 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Next Generations William F. Wertz, Jr. Lyndon H. laRouche, Jr. EDITOR Kenneth Kronberg 32 ART DIRECTOR SYMPOSIUM: Alan Yue LEIBNIZ AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Leibniz, Halle, and Denise Henderson The American Revolution BOOKS Edward Spannaus Katherine Notley 33 Fidelia (ISSN 1059-9126) is published by the Schiller Institute, Inc., P.O. Box 20244, Leibniz to Franklin Washington, D.C. 20041-0244. On 'Happiness' www.schillerinstitute.org Editorial services are provided David Shavin by KMW Publishing Company, 45 Inc. © Schiller Institute, Inc. 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Make check or money order payable to Schiller News 82 LaRouche State of the Union: 'Think as Citizens' Institute, Inc. 83 India Meetings: Infrastructure Key to Development 84 LaRouche Organizes in Italy, Hungary vs. Crisis 86 LaRouche Returns to Mexico! 87 Youth Movement 'Invades' State Legislatures On the Cover Obituary 88 Marianna Wertz Masaccio, St. Peter Healing with Commentary 90 Who Really Owns 'Your' Culture? His Shadow, Brancacci Chapel, Florence (c. 1425). Ideas as power. Pedagogical 100 The Long Life of the Catenary (Scala/Art Resource, N.Y.) Art 111 A 'Resurrection' of Science and Art FIDPD-12-01 Lyndon laRouche on Immortality OnJan. 15, 2003, Marianna Wertz, the vice-presidentof but because people become corrupt. the Schiller Imtitute, died afterundergo ing cardiac surgery This goes back to Solon of Athens' letter to the at Johm Hopkim Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Asthe Athenians at the end of his life, on how they had reportof Marianna'sdeath arrived to Lyndon and Helga became corrupt, after he had earlier saved them. It is LaRouche, he was giving a publicaddress to a group of cultural corruption. When you do not produce the both young and oldpeople in India. Although he had not leaders who can lead the people away from corruption; yet learnedof her death, he was, at that very moment, when you reject them, after you have produced them; speaking about immortality. LaRoucheasked that his you are going to pay the penalty. For example, the case remarks be conveyed, as a message fromHelga and of Hamlet; the case of Hamlet is typical. himself,to her husbandWill Wertz, and tofriends For example, Schiller's treatment ofJeanne d'Arc, everywhere. which happens to be historically precise; there is one dramatic change in the play. Jeanne d'Arc made "" "" "" possible modern European civilization. Without her Despite all of its development as an action, it would not have occurred. She was a simple industrialQuestion: power, as a great nation, how could it farm girl, who went to her stupid king. She said, happen, that America has come to this point, to want Stupid king, God sent me to you, to tell you: Become a to be an imperial power? real king! She said, God wants you to become a king. So she went out, and commanded troops, won battles, It happened because the and then was betrayed by the king. AmericanLyndon LaRouche: people became totally corrupt. The point She lost the fight, because she was betrayed, but she is, that people believe too much in democracy. I refused to submit, at the point of being burned alive. believe in the purpose of the government; I do not As a result of her courage, and death by the have any faith in democracy. The history of Inquisition, she inspired France to throw the British mankind is tragedy, history as tragedy, typified by out of France, successfully, and also inspired and the Classical Greek tragedy, or European tragedy contributed to the Renaissance. Shakespeare, Schiller. Every tragedy, Classical On the other side, take Shakespeare's case of tragedy, is the result of the corruption of the people; Hamlet. Look at the Third Act, the soliloquy of not the result of the corruption of this or that leader, Hamlet. Why has Hamlet failed? How has he failed? What was demonstrated by the play by Shakespeare? He failed, because he said, "Shuffle off this mortal Visit the Schiller Institute website at coil." He was not afraid of death, he was afraid of wwwoschillerinstituteoorg immortality. He was afraid of what he would face, after he died. This is true, and this becomes a practical 2 Naenia E'en the beauteous must perish! What men and the gods doth o'erpower, Ne'er the bronze-plated breast moves of the Stygian Zeus. Only once did love ever soften the Lord of the Shadows , And at the threshold did he, sternly, his gift then recall. Nor heals Aphrodite the wound o'th' beauteous stripling, Which in his delicate side cruelly the boar did inflict. Nor delivers the mother immortal the hero so godlike, When he, at Scaean gate falling, his fate did fulfill. But she ascends from the sea with all the Daughters ofNereus, And the wailing begins over her glorified son. See ye! There gods are lamenting, there goddesses all are lamenting, That the beauteous fades, and that the perfect doth die. E'en a woe-song to be i'th' mouth of the loved one, is glorious, political question, of leadership. You have to have Since what is vulgar falls soundless to Orcus below. the dedication. All great leaders have the -Friedrich Schiller commitment to immortality. Not immortality in the sense of the flesh, but to say, I have only one life, how shall I spend that which is limited anyway? Now, let us come back to the United States, and our In the simple way, a family-they sacrifice for their crazy culture, that we destroyed. children and grandchildren. They say, I am doing I saw it happen, because when I came back in April 1946, something for humanity. I produced good children, the majority of American soldiers in India, were good grandchildren. We make the society better; fully in support of U.S. support for Indian therefore, I achieve a certain kind of immortality. independence. One year later, two years later, back in 95 The typical politician lacks that. He wants his the States, of those I knew, percent had gone over to satisfaction, now. He wants the the other side. That is how it happened. The point is, success of his party faction. He EDITORIAL wants good for his nation, but what had made the he wants to have it without Americans moral, was that FOR having to give up his success.