If the abandonment of religious and moral principles was to become widespread, the consequences could be become such that we would finally see crop u… - African Spir

To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

What is missing to our civilisation is the soul, the spiritual unity, the basis. That is why everything in it is pretence and contrivance; and why also, in spite of the progress and marvellous improvement they have accomplished in the external realm, men have, in general, become themselves neither better nor happier. They have neglected too much the essential; their own perfecting.

If we possessed a more developed moral sense, we'd be as disgusted by the rapacity of those who seek to profit and take without regard for others, as we are by a foul smell.