The Age of Reason
Hope is the most essential and thankfully the most plentiful commodity we humans possess. It permeates every aspect of our lives. It makes life worth living. But it is always to be enjoyed with the realization that, in any way practical, it has no active means. We must always be aware that we are hoping; always be aware we have cast our fate to an intangible, unquantifiable human pursuit. A pursuit that a responsible society shouldn’t embrace as a solution, certainly not as the solution. On the other hand the power of reason is a human quality to be admired and trusted in every circumstance; reason is something to be relied on as a measured and visible route to a considered judgment. One is science the other, magic.
