God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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better. Whatever changes took place were, however,
purely superficial. No doubt, the worker of today
earns higher wages as compared to his
predecessors. But as far as the wealth of real
happiness is concerned, he is immeasurably the
poorer. Modern civilisation and technology may
offer certain material gains to man, but it does not
bring him any mental peace. How apt is Blake’s
description of man in modern civilisation.
“A mark in every face I meet, marks of
weakness, marks of woe”.
Betrand Russell has plainly stated that “Animals are
happy so long as they have health and enough to
eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be happy,
but in the modern world they are not, at least in a
great majority of cases.”
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The tourist in New York is dazzled to see 1250-foot
high skyscrapers, like the Empire State Building,
which is so high that the temperature of the top
floors is much lower than that of the lower floors.
You go all the way up and come back down again—
hardly believing that you have been right up to the
top, because the whole journey takes just 3 minutes
