There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
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The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.Emily Greene Balch
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
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Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
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Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
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