Wisdom: It's Something That You Know When

Our Greatest Responsibility Is To Be Good Ancestors.

We Were Told In One Lecture That It Was Possible To Immunize Against Diphtheria And Tetanus By The Use Of Chemically Treated Toxins, Or Toxoids. And The Following Lecture, We Were Told That For Immunization Against A Virus Disease, You Have To Experience The Infection, And That You Could Not Induce Immunity With The So-called "killed" Or Inactivated, Chemically Treated Virus Preparation. Well, Somehow, That Struck Me. What Struck Me Was That Both Statements Couldn't Be True. And I Asked Why This Was So, And The Answer That Was Given Was In A Sense, 'because.' There Was No Satisfactory Answer.

Wisdom: It's Something That You Know When You See It. You Can Recognize It, You Can Experience It. I Have Defined Wisdom As The Capacity To Make Judgments That When Looked Back Upon Will Seem To Have Been Wise.

What Is … Important Is That We — Number One: Learn To Live With Each Other. Number Two: Try To Bring Out The Best In Each Other. The Best From The Best, And The Best From Those Who, Perhaps, Might Not Have The Same Endowment. And So This Bespeaks An Entirely Different Philosophy — A Different Way Of Life — A Different Kind Of Relationship — Where The Object Is Not To Put Down The Other, But To Raise Up The Other.

I Speak About Universal Evolution And Teleological Evolution, Because I Think The Process Of Evolution Reflects The Wisdom Of Nature. I See The Need For Wisdom To Become Operative. We Need To Try To Put All Of These Things Together In What I Call An Evolutionary Philosophy Of Our Time.