The first lesson in human history is modesty – any moment, a comet may come too close to Earth and get our globe all topsy-turvy or choke its living with fumes or heat – knowing that possibility, we retort to the cosmos in the words of Pascal.
No doubt, democracy today is sounder than ever before, but if war continues to absorb and dominate it, freedom of democracy may succumb to arms and strife. If race and class war divides us into hostile camps, or if our freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open and will engulf the democratic world.
Blaise Pascal said, “When the universe has crushed him, man will still be nobler than what kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory, the universe knows nothing”.
To begin with, do we know about what happened in the past, or is history a fable that not all parties agree upon?....
