A Problem in Communication
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Miles J Breuer
Miles John Breuer was a medical doctor who wrote science fiction as a hobby, being most prolific in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The only novel that Miles J. Breuer wrote alone may be said to be his magnum opus. Though he is best remembered for his satirical short story of a parallel world, 'The Gostak and the Doshes,' it is to 'Paradise and Iron' that we must turn for his best legacy. Miles J. Breuer continued writing science fiction throughout the 1930s but at a reduced output. Throughout his life, he carried on his medical practice until 14th October 1945, when he died from a brief illness.
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A Problem in Communication - Miles J Breuer
A Problem in Communication
By Miles John Breuer
Copyright © September 1930 Miles John Breuer
This edition published in 2010 by eStar Books, LLC.
www.estarbooks.com
ISBN 978-1-61210-010-4
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
I saw the famous Science Temple with its constant stream of worshippers.
A Problem in Communication
By Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
PART I
The Science Community
(This part is related by Peter Hagstrom, Ph.D.)
The Ability to communicate ideas from one individual to another,
said a professor of sociology to his class, is the principal distinction between human beings and their brute forbears. The increase and refinement of this ability to communicate is an index of the degree of civilization of a people. The more civilized a people, the more perfect their ability to communicate, especially under difficulties and in emergencies.
As usual, the observation burst harmlessly over the heads of most of the students in the class, who were preoccupied with more immediate things—with the evening's movies and the week-end's dance. But upon two young men in the class, it made a powerful impression. It crystallized within them certain vague conceptions and brought them to a conscious focus, enabling the young men to turn formless dreams into concrete acts. That is why I take the position that the above enthusiastic words of this sociology professor, whose very name I have forgotten, were the prime moving influence which many years later succeeded in saving Occidental civilization from a catastrophe which would have been worse than death and destruction.
One of these young men was myself, and the other was my lifelong friend and chum, Carl Benda, who saved his country by solving a tremendously difficult scientific puzzle in a simple way, by sheer reasoning power, and without apparatus. The sociology professor struck a responsive chord in us: for since our earliest years we had wigwagged to each other as Boy Scouts, learned the finger alphabet of the deaf and dumb so that we might maintain communication during school hours, strung a telegraph wire between our two homes, admired Poe's Gold Bug
together and devised boyish cipher codes in which to send each other postcards when chance separated us. But we had always felt a little foolish about what we considered our childish hobbies, until the professor's words suddenly roused us to the realization that we were a highly civilized pair of youngsters.
Not only did we then and there cease feeling guilty about our secret ciphers and our dots and dashes, but the determination was born