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Show Read the news of your community in the columns of the Iron County Record. easy Plato maintained that it was the soul's eternal search. It seems to me peculiarly difficult now. In a period of such rapid material expansion and such widespread conflicts, black and white have become grey and will not easily separate. There Is a belief which fol lows from this. If I have the potential of the good life within me and the compulsion to express ex-press It, then it is a power and compulsion common to all men. What I must have for myself to conduct my search, all men "must have: freedom of choice, faith in the power and the beneficient qualities of truth. Wrrat frightens fright-ens me most today is the denial of these rights, because this can only come from the denial of what seems to me the essential nature of man. For if my conviction con-viction holds, man is more Important Im-portant than anything he has created and our great task is to bring back again into a subordinate sub-ordinate position the monstrous superstructures of our society. I hope this way of reducing our problems to the human equation equa-tion is not simply an evasion of them. I don't believe it is. For most of us it is the only area in which we can work: the human hu-man area with ourselves, with the people we touch and through these two by vicarious understanding, under-standing, with mankind. I believe be-lieve this is the safest starting point. I watch young people these days wrestling with our mighty problems. They are much more concerned with them and involved in them than my generation gen-eration of students ever was. They are deeply aware of the words 'equality' and 'justice.' In .heir great desire to right wrong they are prone to forget that causes are people, that nothing matters more than people. They need to add to tfieir crusades the warmer and more effecting virtues of compassion and love. And here again comes those per- sonal virtues that bring tears to the eyes. One further word. I believe that the power of good within us is real and comes there from a source outside and beyond ourselves. Otherwise, I could not put my trust so firmly in it. |