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标 题: 《英文散文精选》-05
发信站: BBS 哈工大紫丁香站 (Mon Jun 28 11:03:37 2004)
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between
our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems
of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit, which stands in
glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer
we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.
Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the external.
The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature,
moral, and religion. The external is that complex of device, techniques,
mechanism and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Our problem
today is that we have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance
the ends for which we live. So much of modern life can by summarized in
that suggestive phrase of Thoreau:" Improve means to an unimproved end."
This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem,
confronting modern man. Enable material powers spell enlarged peril if
there is not proportionate growth of the soul. When the external of
man's nature subjugates the internal, dark storm clouds begin to form.
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