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If suitable conditions and helpful environments do not exist in a society for enabling the higher purpose of life to be fulfilled, for encouraging the studies and practices of philosophy, for preparing a way of life suitable for religious devotion or seeking truth, that society is materialistic. A wiser government and people will try to establish the proper conditions to lift the whole nation and to make arrangements that will meet the outward needs while not obstructing the inward ones as they do so, to create more opportunities for those who wish to answer life's spiritual call and improve themselves.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 532