revolution kindled by the hotbed where destructive ambitions clash within us, fighting the battles of the ruinous selfishness inside us.
The world is a race in the invention of the machines of death, and a crush the like of which history has never known — a crush upon the road of existence, driven by the motive of absolute possession of the universe and of what lies beyond the universe.
O Lord — thought has gained the mastery of the horizons You opened before it, and it doubted Your truth and philosophized over Your birth and the mystery of Your birth; yet it was not long before it bowed down, humbled and small, before Your mission on earth — You who with love tore down the thrones of tyranny and with understanding bound man fast to man. And these teachings You left to us — I come back to them tonight and find myself a new man; I bow before You, great, great indeed; I stretch out my hand to my brother citizen in respect and affection, and I walk in faith and in certainty of the cooperation between us, of our succoring one another, and of the tightening of the bonds of brotherhood among us; and I keep far from those who beat their breasts crying "O Lord" while their hearts are empty of every trace of You. Such men know You in their distress and their need, not in the fullness of their joy and the abundance of their goods.
The anniversary of your birth is the Song of Songs on the lips of the tormented and the wretched of the earth; these hallow you in their misery and their torment, thank you in their joy and their gladness, and set their hope on you in their despair and their despondency.
You are the song and the remedy, the hope and the praise.
O wondrous Child!
Your anniversary — I would have it a pickaxe to tear down what is crumbling among our houses and to build upon the ruins a house of your houses and an edifice of your edifices, to which man of every color and race, every class and rank, may come for shelter.
Matter builds high, runs riot, and rules — but the victory belongs to the spirit.
The candle burns that it may give light. Knowledge is building up, not tearing down. Culture is enlightenment, not leading astray. Man rises above man by the virtues. A little understanding and a little love — peoples are made happy and nations arise.
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