If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Interpretation
We risk being judged negatively by future generations if we focus solely on wealth and ignore more important values.
Alfred Russel Wallace warns that an obsession with material wealth can lead to a neglect of moral and ethical responsibilities. If society continues on this path, future generations may view us unfavorably, recognizing that while we chased riches, we overlooked the more profound aspects of life that contribute to true progress and humanity.
In practice
In a speech emphasizing the importance of community values over materialism.
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life. Through man's ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful.
We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.
Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.
In order to trust your body as a guide, the first step is to begin to understand it.
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