If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Interpretation
We risk being judged negatively by future generations if we focus solely on wealth and ignore more important values.
Alfred Russel Wallace warns that an obsession with material wealth can lead to a neglect of moral and ethical responsibilities. If society continues on this path, future generations may view us unfavorably, recognizing that while we chased riches, we overlooked the more profound aspects of life that contribute to true progress and humanity.
In practice
In a speech emphasizing the importance of community values over materialism.
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
Pay no attention to what the critics say; _x000D_ _x000D_ no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.
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