World View

from Orage's Commentaries on All and Everything, p 51.

"Can we, in this life, develop our emotional and mental potentialities, become Platos or Hypatias, which in pre-Babylonian times were normal? In this decline, from intuition and understanding, to rationalism, came the decline of religion and the invention of the maleficient idea of good and evil.

"What is our world-view? Is the cosmos the result of pure chance? Do I regard it as being governed by an all-wise and benevolent Being? Do I depend on a kindly Providence? Do I regard it as a penal settlement, or a 'Vale of Tears'? Or do I regard the world as a school to which I am sent to acquire a certain understanding, a kind of gymnasium in which I can develop my potentialities?

"We should try and set down for ourselves our conception of life."