The Question Whether The Long Effort To

As The World Community Develops In Peace, It Will Open Up Great Untapped Reservoirs In Human Nature.

We Are Not Asked To Subscribe To Any Utopia Or To Believe In A Perfect World Just Around The Corner. We Are Asked To Be Patient With Necessarily Slow And Groping Advance On The Road Forward, And To Be Ready For Each Step Ahead As It Become Practicable. We Are Asked To Equip Ourselves With Courage, Hope, Readiness For Hard Work, And To Cherish Large And Generous Ideals.

A Dark And Terrible Side Of This Sense Of Community Of Interests Is The Fear Of A Horrible Common Destiny Which In These Days Of Atomic Weapons Darkens Men's Minds All Around The Globe.

The Future Will Be Determined In Part By Happenings That It Is Impossible To Foresee; It Will Also Be Influenced By Trends That Are Now Existent And Observable.

Human Nature Seems To Me Like The Alps. The Depths Are Profound, Black As Night, And Terrifying, But The Heights Are Equally Real, Uplifted In The Sunshine.