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.
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)
Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.
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