Technology Gives Us The Facilities That Lessen

It Is Natural To Try To Understand One's Own Time And To Seek To Analyse The Forces That Move It.

A Second Characteristic Of Our Time Is The Prevalence Of Nationalism. This Is Still Spreading, Affecting New Communities, More Peripheral Regions And So-called Backward Peoples.

Industrialization Based On Machinery, Already Referred To As A Characteristic Of Our Age, Is But One Aspect Of The Revolution That Is Being Wrought By Technology.

Human Nature Seems To Me Like The Alps. The Depths Are Profound, Black As Night, And Terrifying, But The Heights Are Equally Real, Uplifted In The Sunshine.

We Are Not Asked To Subscribe To Any Utopia Or To Believe In A Perfect World Just Around The Corner. We Are Asked To Be Patient With Necessarily Slow And Groping Advance On The Road Forward, And To Be Ready For Each Step Ahead As It Become Practicable. We Are Asked To Equip Ourselves With Courage, Hope, Readiness For Hard Work, And To Cherish Large And Generous Ideals.