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Show TO SURVIVE NATIONS NEED TOETS" AND 'PROPHETS Nations are dying because they have no great poets and prophets, or, if they have they are not listening to them. This may seem strange to many, but it is true. When a nation ceases to produce and read and enjoy great poets, and rejects the prophets they are on the way out. Prophets and phophe-sy phophe-sy are the headlights of all religion, always pointing the way. Poets inspire, uplift, civilize and often save the day for a people. peo-ple. They are listeners to and writers of the heart of things; "They hear through the roar of mortal things, The God's im-motal im-motal whisperings." It is fatal to a nation or a people to set aside their poets and prophets. |