The Moral Vision
Our Potential is our Wealth
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objectives. Without proper direction our potential
will be wasted.
In ancient times and even up to mediaeval times,
gold being greatly prized, one of the great
preoccupations of the ‘scientists’ of those days was
to convert base metals into gold. Dreams of instant
wealth drove innumerable people over the centuries
to superhuman efforts. But all this expenditure of
time, money and energy was in vain, for death
always overtook them before they could achieve
anything. It never seemed to occur to any of them
that these metals with which they worked had a
different and greater potential than anyone could
ever have imagined. Iron, for example, was
convertible, not into gold, but into machinery, and
could be used as a versatile building material of
great strength. In the world of today, western
nations, having learnt these secrets and directed
their energies towards building up the relative
technology, have succeeded in acquiring far greater
wealth than mere silver and gold.
