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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
Topics
- Growing Up
- War
- Philosophy
- Lying
- Selfish
- Heart
- Passion
- Fighting
- Men
- Vision
- Progress
- Age
- Saint
- World
- Consciousness
- Oppression
- Invisible
- Reason
- Conspiracy
- Unselfish
- Proverbial
- Galaxy
- Profession
- Appeals
- Arms
- Born
- Civilization
- Facts
- Force
- Grows
- Half
- Sage
- Sides
- Yoke
- Every Man
- Ifs
- One Man
- Seems
- Slow Progress
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