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The Capacity For Hope Is The Most Significant Fact Of Life. It Provides Human Beings With A Sense Of Destination And The Energy To Get Started.

To Talk About The Need For Perfection In Man Is To Talk About The Need For Another Species. The Essence Of Man Is Imperfection. Imperfection And Blazing Contradictions-between Mixed Good And Evil, Altruism And Selfishness, Cooperativeness And Combativeness, Optimism And Fatalism, Affirmation And Negation.

The Present Mode Of Life On Earth Is Madness, Which Is Nontheless Lethal For Being Legal. Rational Existence Is Possible, But It Calls For A World Consciousness And A World Design. People Who Develop The Habit Of Thinking Of Themselves As World Citizens Are Fulfilling The First Requirement Of Sanity In Our Time.

But We Have Yet To Make Peace Basic To Our Education. The Most Important Subject In The World Is Hardly Taught At All. In The Spirit Of This Passage, The Editor Has Taken The Liberty Of Editing Mr. Cousins' Language To Make It More Gender Inclusive.

In A Democracy, The Individual Enjoys Not Only The Ultimate Power But Carries The Ultimate Responsibility.