It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.
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Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
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The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
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There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
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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.
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Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
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Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
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We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
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