That we must expect the advent of immense renovations in religion and vast innovations in thought can be reasonably denied by nobody. The forces of retribution or reward, which are adjusting all accounts and which are now operative in all departments, are too impersonal in their purpose, too universal in their scope, and too powerful in their character to be ignored or resisted successfully. The twentieth-century world cannot escape from its extraordinary destiny. It is for them to see that it is no longer a question of their private ambitions or wishes and personal interests or leanings. It is a question of whether they are willing to bend before the storm or else be broken by it. For the new forces of enlightenment tread on the heels of the Four Horsemen. If history is forcing these changes into human understanding today, it is doing so at a heavy price in untold agony. Are we to have further necessary ideas taught us in the same way or are we going to embrace them consciously deliberately and willingly?
-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 4 : World Crisis > # 361
