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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)
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 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)
We can get on top of the world in most circumstances if we know and practice correct breathing, but without it we will always be working on one cylinder, and at the bottom of our form. For correct breathing feeds our minds as well as our bodies.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
The importance of the goodwill of every single human being in this respect would be brought home to them. Not merely the service of their hands but that of their hearts and minds would be held in esteem as the riches of the community.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Can we grasp that the only requirement in order that this may be so is organization, a combined world organization founded upon the spiritual principle of sharing and cooperation; and that this would change the world from the state it is now in to a comparative Heaven?
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Finally came the conceptions of Federation and of Commonwealth. This saw the emergence of a new concept of co-operation instead of tyranny, and of the rights of the individual instead of those of the autocrat.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)
Let us lay down as the first foundation stone of our work the determination to seek for a World Design which is strictly in accordance with the highest spiritual principles which have been given to man down the ages, irrespective of whether we think the result possible or not.
Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)