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The terrific shocks which nations and individuals received during the war aroused them to the imperative need of finding new ways of life. The breakdown of old supports was most marked. What people would not do voluntarily was expedited by the painful hammer-blows of calamitous karma into urgent birth.

-- Notebooks Category 11: The Negatives > Chapter 3 : Their Presence in The World > # 246