The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.