The Moral Vision
Ease Always Comes After Hardship
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EASE ALWAYS COMES AFTER
HARDSHIP
Anyone who has experienced a dust or sand storm
in desert regions will know how traumatic this can
be. There does not appear to be anything good
about the scorching, blinding winds. But Soviet
meteorologists have made investigations, in the
Karakoram desert into the properties of dust storms
and found that they are nature’s way of controlling
extreme climates. The strong winds raise the dust
up to form a screen in the atmosphere, guarding the
earth from the intensity of the sun’s heat. The
surface of the desert, scalded by the summer sun, is
considerably cooled when it erupts in a dust storm.
Sometimes the resultant change of temperature can
be felt, say, in America and the Arctic, far afield as
these areas are from Arabia, and Central Asia.
Such is the order of nature. In this world just as ease
always follows hardship, so fruitful results come
only from arduous, painstaking processes. This is
the way nature works, and from it we can see how
we should live on earth. We should be prepared for
a period of hard struggle before we can expect to
