The current influence of both Leaves and The Nature and
Destiny of Man seems diminished by the ascendancy of modern scientific and political thought, but such overshadowing may be for the moment only.
Not exact matches
Yet with all our advance, new problems have taken the place
of those we have temporarily solved, new and previously unknown vistas lie beyond the peaks we have scaled, the limits
of the universe
seem further away than ever, and the purpose and
destiny of man are not one whit clearer.
There is the constant innuendo
of «the credulous outlook and the primitive beliefs
of those days etc. etc.» The essence
of the argument from motives
of credibility is going to reduce more and more, so it
seems to the writer, to the inevitable need to postulate a Divine Environing
of human
destiny, and to the manifest gradual unfolding
of this potential, without contradiction
of the previous essential doctrinal relationships
of God to
Man, and
of Man to God.
But just as truly, and with a much wider range among
men, beggarly poverty, the worry over a bare existence from day to day,
seems to us to be a dismal burdening
of life which can exclude altogether the thought
of an otherworldly
destiny and determination
of life.
But a close look at the documentary I Am Not Your Guru, which covers his Date with
Destiny (DWD) seminar, reveals a
man who
seems to be a bunch
of things at once.