A Study for the Times, an Inquiry Into Thought and Motive (Classic Reprint)

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We must recognize that, in the passing of power from the few to the many, the guidance of the world's affairs is being shifted into hands untrained and as yet entirely unprepared for such vast responsibility. We are like children coming into charge of a locomotive: with such power in our hands and so little experience it is certain that we shall bring grievous hurt upon ourselves, if not destruction. If only that good old Latin maxim, festina [ante - make haste slowly - could be burned in upon our consciousness, there would be hope for true progress; but the present trend of the world's thought is not in that direction. Not once in a thousand times is a weighty matter wisely decided on impulse; but now impulse seems to hold the gravest issues of life at its mercy.

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