ABSTRACT
The notion that human goodness is measured by social "progress" is shallow. It allows human beings to be as superficial and trendy as they please in their personal lives. Wisdom begins with insight into the tragic quality of human life. Dreams, faiths, wishes are necessarily broken. For the character of human consciousness is such that it envisages total understanding and perfect love, while the fact of human limitation is that these can never be attained. In human life there is an almost static or perhaps cyclical pattern underlying the mythology of "progress", and "advance", and "liberation". In the better universities and among the educated, there is quiet conviction that "social change" is good and that resistance to change is the nub of human evil. Urbane men, believing in civil rights and social justice, introduce a violence into human life that raises screams of pain from others, though they themselves know not what they do.
