The power that guides the ways of the world is not in the hands of man. Man strives to change the world”s ways through literature, politics, and religion; but each person in the world is unique, and the vast conglomeration of their differences gives the world a guidance beyond the control of man. The need is to get all, or nearly all of the people to work toward a single goal. Politics appears sometimes to be partly successful; and literature, in a longer time frame, has some effect. Religion has had a merely nominal effect, for the main concern of its adherents, as of all citizenry, has always been money (see The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris). These variant forces move the world in a sometimes predictable, but never in controllable direction.
We approach our zero hour on a ship with no rudder.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
