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Archive October 1997 I, Pencil
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"I, Pencil
By Leonard Read
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posted October 1997
I am a lead pencil — the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all
boys and girls and adults who can read and write.
Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that’s all I do.
You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my
story is interesting. And, next, I am a mystery-more so than a tree or
a sunset or even a flash of lightning. But, sadly, I am taken for granted
by those who use me, as if I were a mere incident and without background.
This supercilious attitude relegates me to the level of the commonplace.
This is a species of the grievous error in which mankind cannot too long
persist without peril. For, as a wise man observed, “We are perishing
for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe; a
claim I shall attempt to prove. In fact, if you can understand me —
no, that’s too much to ask of anyone — if you can become aware
of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom
mankind is so unhappily losing. I have a profound lesson to teach. And
I can teach this lesson better than can an automobile or an aeroplane
or a mechanical dishwasher because-well, because I am seemingly so simple.
Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to
make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? Especially when it is
realised that there are about one and one-half billion of my kind produced
in the USA. each year.
Pick me up and look me over. What do you see? Not much meets the eye —
there’s some wood, lacquer, the printed labelling, graphite lead,
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