If we read the history of civilization, we get a mixed feeling. There have been glorious moments. There have also been disappointments, terrible disapointments. Yet the best in man was ever driven by a secret urge. There was always an urge in him that spoke of the nobility of life. Whether he was aware of it or not, a kind of compulsion, an impetus towards perfection ever pushed him towards loftier aims. The sculptures by Phidias, the caves of Ajanata whose artists have preferred to remain unknown, the tall and massive Gopurams of the South Indian temples, tpaintings of the Sistine Chapel have given to the soul of man a loftiness that is born of something sublime and marvellous, given a character of divinity itself. In him he possesses a sense of immortality. In his quest he is secretly guided by some authentic truth. Even today the study of Nature is taking him to occult domains which were unknown to him until a year ago. Stepping into the vastness of space or mustering the power of a laptop practically in every walk of our life is undeniably a most astounding achievement of the modern man. Cycles of evolution in the past went through rough and difficult times, and they did tumble, but mankind was always on the march.

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