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Re: The Few

Apr 13, 1996 12:50 PM
by Dr. A.M.Bain


In message <960413003756_76400.1474_HHL30-1@CompuServe.COM>, Jerry
Schueler <76400.1474@compuserve.com> writes
>Alexis:
>>I can't begin to tell you how much I hate that "only for the few stuff".
>Nick:
><I don't think her intention was only for the few.
>Alan:
>>.. she wrote hundreds of pages of material for a couple of dozen
>>people?  Not very likely.
>
>       Look at the membership of the TS. Then look at the
>world's population.  Then tell me that we are not the "few."
>How may people have actually read the SD?  sadly, even fewer.
>
>       Jerry S.
>       Member, TI
>       One of the Few
>
While you have a valid observation, my point is that HPB did not *write*
for the few but for the many.  That the many may not have taken her up
would not change her original intention.

Alan
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