What tho’ the spicy breezes Blow soft o’er Ceylon’s isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile? In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.7 To wood and stone we must currently add political programs and social groups, economic status, education, technologies and human knowledge, drugs, and perhaps other things as well. To all of these, human beings bow down. They take them as ultimate points of reference for their lives and actions. And if that is all we see, certainly there are no grounds for hope. The
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