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In all the history of man was there ever a period like this? Yet, although man has changed himself and his environment in every way, he has failed to change in the most important ways--morally and spiritually. Who has the hardihood to declare--in the face of the bestiality and cruelty which have appeared during this generation--that there is less evil abroad in the world now than formerly? And who has the equal hardihood to declare--in the face of the religious, mystical, and philosophic testament in writing which has come down with the centuries--that we have more intuitive knowledge of the eternal truths, more personal communion with the spiritual self, than the men of antiquity?

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 4 : World Crisis > # 167