Curing The World’s Ills

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30156, 13 June 1963, Page 3

Curing The World’s Ills

Sir, —The period through which we are passing is a very important one in the history of the world. This is a time of transition, like that of early manhood, a.»d humanity is like the young man who thinks that he can set everything right in a moment, that the wisdom of the ages is nothing beside his keen insight, that only the sloth and stupidity of his elders stand in the way of the abolition of every abuse and the righting of every wrong. Everybody else has failed, but he will succeed; he will solve in a moment the problems of ages, and in a few years the world will be happy. The surging democracies of modern days are very young. One moment all will be right if we get rid of a king; next moment, all is saved if an established church be crushed: yet again, happiness is secured if the Capitalists or the Communists be destroyed. Happiness will not exist in the world until we develop unselfishness, trust, high character, and a sense of duty. —Yours, etc., A. and M.A. June 11, 1963.