Optimism Without
the history of philosophy is to know that the highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
The growth of philosophy is the story of man’s spiritual life. Outside lies that great mass of events which we call History. As I look on this mass, I see it take form and shape itself in the ways of God. The history of man is an epic of progress. In the world within and the world without I see a wonderful correspondence, a glorious symbolism which reveals the human and the divine communing together, the lesson of philosophy repeated in fact. In all the parts that compose the history of mankind hides the spirit of good, and gives meaning to the whole.
Far back in the twilight of history I see the savage fleeing from the forces of nature which he has not learned to control, and seeking
