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There are two ways of summing up world history, the inner way and the outer way. Both have been at the mercy of scribes and policies.

— Vera Stanley Alder Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)

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Whatever possibilities and potentialities are latent today, the fact remains that the last word and the final decision will rest with us — the people.

Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)

There will be tremendous difficulties to surmount whilst trying to arrive at the coming stages...

Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)

We have been living through an epoch in which wars, tyrannies and privations seem to have reached their peak...

This chasm has to be crossed by the human mind to-day.

Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)

At the present time the issue is the self-interest of several immense nation-groups... Economical chaos and frustration is the result, on a world scale.

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