God Arises
The Life We Seek
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scientific truths and discoveries should cease
to be the mere instruments of greed. The
supreme consideration is man.”
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We can sum up his ideas in these words: the masses
constitute the actual environment which is
necessary for the development programmes to be
implemented. The necessary tools of progress—
investment and technical expertise, etc.—cannot
function effectively in a political and cultural
vacuum.
Modern thinkers have found no solution to the
problems of how this vacuum is to be filled and
how an environment is to be built up in which the
public and government officials can work together
to build society. Personal views clash with social
concepts, and if God is left out of the picture, all
attempts at human progress are doomed to failure,
because they fall a prey to self-engendered
contradictions. On a social level, the aim of the
people is to build a peaceful, prosperous
community, but at the same time they are unable to
suppress the desire to seek material prosperity on a
purely individual basis. Now if everyone is so
