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Hada this to say about America's destiny and the consequences of not pursuing the spiritual path:

"It is not enough that we solve particular problems. We must solve the very cause of problem itself.

Wars, depressions, crime, dictators and their oppressions, are the symptoms giving clear indication of a greater

ailment. To examine each problem solely in terms of the problem itself, without recognition of its true

relationship to a larger and more universal necessity, is to fail in the broader implications of an enduring peace

and prosperity.

Experience should have taught us long ago that policies which have originated from material considerations

and attitudes have proved inadequate. The whole story of civilization and the records of history tell

us that all such adjustments hold no hope of lasting peace or security. But, here we are again preparing

ourselves to be satisfied with temporary solutions for permanent problems.

The recognition is long overdue that we oversimplify the problem of world peace when we think that

process is one of breaking the task down for examination of its materialistic parts, and then hopefully devising

an applicable remedy for each of these. The physical conditions of human existence are not the whole of the

human problem. We could adjust all material considerations to the point of supremest equity, and yet

accomplish virtually nothing solutional.

The greatest of known problems is the human problem. And not until all embracing examination is

made into every phase of human needs can there be an adequate reconstruction policy for a postwar world.

That man is physical is obvious; but he is also mental, and emotional; he is spiritual, and he has a soul. These

latter factors are not so obvious.

What to do about them is not so easy; for they are difficult to understand, and even more difficult to

classify and reduce to a working pattern. We as builders of a civilization will have to learn that only when

equal consideration is given to each of these elements of man's nature will we arrive at the solutions for the

disasters into which men and nations precipitate themselves.

Our postwar reconstructors--ours, if not by our selection, at least with our consent--are not outstandingly

qualified for this broader task. Few indeed are the statesmen and politicians who have any conception of man

as a spiritual being. And as for military leaders, they are primarily disciplinarians, invaluable as such in times

of war, but not at all emotionally geared to problems of individualistic peacetime character. And world planners

recruited from among our industrial leaders, it must be admitted, are not generally informed on the

workings of the human psyche. Those who have made the study of human conduct their life work, the

sociologists, have little scientific knowledge of the hidden springs that animate that very conduct into its

amazing diversity of manifestations. And if a word is to be said for bringing in the clergy, it might be that the

theologian planner who will be truly useful will be one who acquires at least some knowledge of the science of

biology.

We are displaying a woeful lack of vision in the way we fumble with the eternal laws of life. It is not

enough that we now hopefully create a setup permitting men to give allegiance with their minds or to serve

faithfully with their bodies. We must some day face the truth that man is inevitably and incurably an idealist;

for this is the truth that will set us free. Man's need is for the idealistic content of his nature to be properly

nourished; then his whole consciousness will impel him to right action -and then no more will our laws fail,

treaties be broken, and the rights of man stand violated.

The American nation desperately needs a vision of its own purpose. It must conceive it in a generous

idealism, great and strong enough to bind thoughtless and selfish persons to something bigger than themselves.

It must recognize that it is in the intangible ideal that the foundations are laid for all seeable good, must know

that the truly practical course and the course of hard realism for America is the one that is laid basically in a

generous idealism.

This is more than an indicated course. It is one that we inevitably must follow, guided by the hand of

destiny. "

No one of the elite paid heed to his advise, now we are walking towards another WW#.

Congrats, money changers.