Principles of western civilisation

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is the race to rise to a sense of direct, personal, and compelling responsibility to a principle transcending every power and purpose included in the limits of its political consciousness; and still be so occupied with its present as to set free therein the play of its highest powers? How are we to witness the controlling principles of human consciousness projected out of the present ; and yet see opened within the present a free conflict of forces such as has never been in the world before, out of which the greater future can alone be born, and towards which the whole process of evolution in society must ultimately ascend ?