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The terrible exploitation of native labor and destruction of native home life and the degenerating living conditions which have often been the result of private enterprise will no longer be possible.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Capable of creating beauty, he yet seems content to dwell mostly in conditions of hopeless ugliness. Of his magnificent body he makes on the whole a travesty. His mind, as an actual potent instrument, he usually ignores altogether.
The Fifth Dimension and the Future of Mankind (1940)
We can assume that a perfect world IS the ultimate goal for mankind and the purpose of God, for this has been promised to us in all religions.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Can we grasp that there is more than enough land surface, capable of restoration, to support and feed in comfort a larger population than now exists on this globe?
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
It will be discovered that a system of exchange between peoples of goods and services will, when intelligently developed, gradually cancel out the need for buying and selling with money.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
At present nations are held back by fear for the loss of their individuality... individual expression is essential.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
It has seen the people themselves taking increasing individual and collective action in order to obtain a world organization or government, a universal religion, or a universal language.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Surely the human race is at last reaching the stage of adulthood... is deliberately embracing responsibility for its own development and government, and trying to face up to the causes of its failures?
It is... becoming obvious to them that the cause must lie in their own ignorance, and in that they have allowed themselves to be misinformed, influenced and used.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Conversely, a shallow, quick breath only half-nourishes, and is the partner of fear, nervousness and self-consciousness; whilst the uneven uncontrolled breath allows the person to become ‘beside themselves* with the emotional disturbance and indecision.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Thirdly, we will give two practical Courses of self-training, mental and physical, with which we can fit ourselves to become successful pioneers for the new age.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Nevertheless, even the most benign and powerful of these nation-groups had still to consider everything outside of itself as potential enemy, and therefore self-interest still ruled.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
The old ways of life are steadily losing their hold. Labour revolts. Culture revolts too. They are all... reaching for something different and better.
The question of labour being cheaper in one country than in another, and of different standards of living which puzzle economists so much to-day, need not exist at this future period.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
The scene would change from that of world and individual disease, due to faulty circulation through obstructions and deficiencies, to collective and individual health due to following the true and natural laws of economy.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
We are living in a time of transition, when everything is going to be so different that the experts are possibly more handicapped by their traditional time-worn knowledge than are we, untrained and with minds empty of red tape and orthodoxy.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Can we grasp, for instance, that in spite of weather vagaries, even in spite of present soil erosion, there is and could be more than enough produced to-day to allow everyone everywhere a fair standard of living, without entailing drudgery for anybody?
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Is there a succeeding evolutionary step to be taken which would bring order out of chaos, and which would be the natural sequence of all that has gone before?...
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Eventually this will come about. But the amount of delay, the number of false starts and mistakes which will have to be lived through first will depend upon how much clear and active thinking we will do.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
The Council for Economics would have the work of planning the arrangements by means of which every child born into the world would be assured of the necessities of life and all the advantages of education.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)