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CHAPTER 19: A VIEW OF
EVOLUTION
BUT how
shall we avoid throwing ourselves into altruistic work if we
are surrounded by poverty, ignorance, suffering, and every
appearance of misery as very many people are? Those who live
where the withered hand of want is thrust upon them from every
side appealingly for aid must find it hard to refrain from
continuous giving. Again, there are social and other
irregularities, injustices done to the weak, which fire
generous souls with an almost irresistible desire to set things
right. We want to start a crusade; we feel that the wrongs will
never be righted until we give ourselves wholly to the task. In
all this we must fall back upon the point of view. We must
remember that this is not a bad world but a good world in the
process of becoming.
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