Authors: Gen LaGreca
A Dream of Daring (40 page)
Tom saw that the
representatives of the dying age knew how to use a powerful weapon to give them
a stronghold. While the men who conquered nature created the machinery of
industry, the men who conquered other men grabbed the machinery of the state.
Their weapon was the law. Tom saw a whole slew of new acts, edicts, and rulings
crop up. These laws were aimed not at curbing criminality but at curbing
productivity. The new statutes clipped the wings of man so that he could no
longer surge into the sky to pursue his dream of daring but instead had to seek
the permission of new masters before every flight. Tom saw the rule of law
seized from the hands of Lady Justice and pulled into the folds of the power
brokers.
As Tom saw all the old
types that had plagued man in the past now vying for control of the modern
world, he knew that the dying age would not go down easily. He, as well as
Ladybug, who thought as he did, came to realize: Not only was the tractor in
its infancy but man too was in his infancy.
They saw that the forces
of the dying age had survived all epochs of man. But the current age, they
knew, was unprecedented. Man the infant was fast becoming a toddler, taking his
first steps and discovering the early morning country road of freedom. Tom and
Ladybug knew that mankind would not reach maturity until the day when people
fully grasped the notion that had impelled the two of them in their own
struggles, the notion that everyone must be a master of himself.
When men understand that
their greatest gift is their intelligence, that their glory is to use it, that
their own will is their trusted guide to chart their course, that their labors are
theirs to choose, that the fruits of them are theirs to keep, and that
surrendering this immense power to the rule of others is beneath the dignity of
man—that is when the new age will soar to heights unimaginable.
That is when Icarus will
fly into the vast, cloudless sky, and he will once again dare to reach the sun.
But this time his wings will hold strong.
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Genevieve
(Gen) LaGreca is a Chicago writer whose first novel,
Noble Vision
, won a
ForeWord
magazine Book of the Year Award and was a finalist in the
Writer’s
Digest
International Book Awards—two of the most prestigious national
literary honors in independent publishing.
Aside from
fiction, Gen also writes social commentary. Her articles have appeared in
Forbes
,
The
Orange County Register
,
Daily Caller
,
Real Clear
Markets
,
Gainesville Sun
,
Mises Daily
, and other publications.
Why does she
like writing novels? Gen explains, “I want to tell stories of unusual people
doing unusual things, stories with something important to say, and stories that
inspire us to reach for our dreams.”
Gen is currently working on a third novel, and she
has completed the screenplay of
Noble Vision
. For more information, see:
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