Presumably man’s spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady
past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. He has
built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more
fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely
become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His
excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of
forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand
with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.
