The Science of History and the Hope of Mankind/Chapter 10
SECTION X
THE OUTLOOK
THE interests of modern mankind are hanging on the activities of the "barbarians" of the present-day world, who, by altering the disposition of the forces of the universe, are silently helping in the shifting of its centre of gravity to a new position; and on the transcendental heroism of those great men who are equipping themselves for the magnificent career to be built up by utilising the conditions thus created. The pioneers of the future progress and advancement of humanity are those heroes who will be able to make the most of the inevitable changes that constitute the life-history of the world, and create new situations by timely and skilful readjustment of world influences. And so long as there is one man in this universe capable of opening up new fields and discovering new opportunities by making the necessary modifications and re-arrangements, so long humanity's cause will continue to be broadening from "precedent to precedent," and the interests of mankind widening through revolutions and transformations to "one increasing purpose" with "the process of the suns."
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