A New Challenge

If the world has not approached its end, it has reached a major watershed in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will demand from us a spiritual blaze, we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern Era...No one on earth has any other way left but upwards.
Everything will depend on whether or not the last hour finds us a generation worthy of greatness.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Commencement address at Harvard University, June 1978