The Cynic Says, "one Man Can't Do

In The Artist's Recreation Of The World We Are Enabled To See The World.

Josh Billings Said, It Is Not Only The Most Difficult Thing To Know Oneself, But The Most Inconvenient One, Too. Human Beings Have Always Employed An Enormous Variety Of Clever Devices For Running Away From Themselves, And The Modern World Is Particularly Rich In Such Stratagems.

More And More Americans Feel Threatened By Runaway Technology, By Large-scale Organization, By Overcrowding. More And More Americans Are Appalled By The Ravages Of Industrial Progress, By The Defacement Of Nature, By Man-made Ugliness. If Our Society Continues At Its Present Rate To Become Less Livable As It Becomes More Affluent, We Promise All To End Up In Sumptuous Misery.

The [nonprofit] Sector Is The Natural Home Of Nonmajoritarian Impulses, Movements And Values. It Comfortably Harbors Innovators, Maverick Movements, Groups Which Feel They Must Fight For Their Place In The Sun, And Critics Of Both Liberal Conservative Persuasion.

What Leaders Have To Remember Is That Somewhere Under The Somnolent Surface Is The Creature That Builds Civilizations, The Dreamer Of Dreams, The Risk Taker. And Remembering That, The Leader Must Reach Down To The Springs That Never Dry Up, The Ever-fresh Springs Of The Human Spirit.