Thousands of years ago the...
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Thousands of years ago the aim of the primitive nation-tribes was to conquer their neighbors by successful warfare. They created bows, arrows, swords, and axes for this purpose.
We have better tools today, but the aim is still the same. Huge airplanes that can exceed the speed of sound bind the world together, but they also carry the missiles that can destroy it. Chlorine purifies the water so that a city's millions can safely drink it, but it also makes poison gas to reach where bullets cannot go. What has it profited us?
An automaker boasts that his car's twelve-cylinder engine can propel it at 180 miles per hour. Wonderful! But what does it matter if a person can go 180 miles per hour if he's a pinhead when he starts and a pinhead when he stops? The quality of life is not in the number of things we possess.
A city like New York is a place of marvels -- architectural splendor, food from all the world, great entertainment, a high standard of living. But these things do not make the average New Yorker happy. A smile in a subway car is as rare as a Bible in Russia! Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, minister for many years of the famed Riverside Church, said, "We are not dogs, to be satisfied when a few bones are flung to us, though they be autos, subways, electric lights and airplanes. Conscience and faith and love have not been touched by science."
What does it profit a man ...
We have better tools today, but the aim is still the same. Huge airplanes that can exceed the speed of sound bind the world together, but they also carry the missiles that can destroy it. Chlorine purifies the water so that a city's millions can safely drink it, but it also makes poison gas to reach where bullets cannot go. What has it profited us?
An automaker boasts that his car's twelve-cylinder engine can propel it at 180 miles per hour. Wonderful! But what does it matter if a person can go 180 miles per hour if he's a pinhead when he starts and a pinhead when he stops? The quality of life is not in the number of things we possess.
A city like New York is a place of marvels -- architectural splendor, food from all the world, great entertainment, a high standard of living. But these things do not make the average New Yorker happy. A smile in a subway car is as rare as a Bible in Russia! Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, minister for many years of the famed Riverside Church, said, "We are not dogs, to be satisfied when a few bones are flung to us, though they be autos, subways, electric lights and airplanes. Conscience and faith and love have not been touched by science."
What does it profit a man ...
