They fought, they suffered and they paid. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received - hatred. Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage. Adam was condemned to suffer - because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Prometheus was chained to a rock and torn by vultures - because he had stolen the fire of the gods. That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had opened the roads of the world. But thereafter, men could travel past any horizon. He was considered a transgressor who ventured into forbidden territory. He was probably torn on the rack he had taught his brothers to build. Centuries later, the first man invented the wheel. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had lifted darkness off the earth. But thereafter men had fire to keep them warm, to cook their food, to light their caves. He was considered an evildoer who had dealt with a demon mankind dreaded. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light. Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire.
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