How to call It?

That of the society, that of the law, that of the family, that of friendship, of duty, of a pledge? Can it be the truth of the ensemble, of the whole?

Can the well-being and the harmony of all that is dictate our priorities? Can we imagine, or even conceive of, such humanity whose every member, at every moment and unfailingly, would have as priority the welfare, balance and harmony of all that is? In ancient India, every day in every hearth and home, sounded a simple prayer that all beings may be in peace and harmony and prosperity may come to all. Can such a call, spontaneous call, such an urge and aspiration of the human living material individual being ever come to be the norm. But such is indeed the question that confronts us all today: are we capable of truly wishing harmony for all, for the whole earth – spontaneously, sincerely, unreservedly? The politician, the manager, the general, the billionaire, just as the rail worker, the beggar, the laborer and the mechanics, the princess as the prostitute?

And yet would it not truly be the most natural, healthy and normal condition, would it not be one of the traits of a human species to which it is good to belong and which all creatures could respect?

And is not this, such humanity, that the shipwrecked at last beholds with infinite and intense gratitude when, exhausted,

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