We owe each other “Yes” when we are called upon to do for another. “No” when we are called upon to do violence in the name of country. As H.G. Wells so prophetically put it in 1913 in The World Set Free “… The little circles of their egotisms have to be opened out until they become arcs in the sweep of the racial purpose. And this that you teach to others you must learn also sedulously yourselves. Philosophy, discovery, art, every sort of skill, every sort of service, love: these are the means of salvation from that narrow loneliness of desire, that brooding preoccupation with self and egotistical relationships, which is hell for the individual, treason to the race, and exile from God....”
We owe each other “Yes” when we are called upon to do for another. “No” when we are called upon to do violence in the name of country. As H.G. Wells so prophetically put it in 1913 in The World Set Free “… The little circles of their egotisms have to be opened out until they become arcs in the sweep of the racial purpose. And this that you teach to others you must learn also sedulously yourselves. Philosophy, discovery, art, every sort of skill, every sort of service, love: these are the means of salvation from that narrow loneliness of desire, that brooding preoccupation with self and egotistical relationships, which is hell for the individual, treason to the race, and exile from God....”
Oof yes. Thanks for sharing.