Coming: A WORLD OF ENLIGHTENMENT! - Jeff Calkins - May 1981

Jeff Calkins

Some day historians will look upon the 20th century as part of the dark ages. Oh, we think we are enlightened! Has not the 20th century seen great strides in medicine, transportation, communication? Undoubtedly. But mere knowledge and technology is not enlightenment. Our age has probably less understanding of the basic, eternal truths that bear on human happiness than preceding ages. The 20th century has indeed seen a "knowledge explosion." But in reality what this means is that there are now probably more writers of learned journals than readers of them. The average university library contains endless volumes on boring, turgid topics. And what good will most of them do? They will serve as sources for footnotes in even more endless volumes! Most of them will remain, deservedly, unread. Indiscriminate, promiscuous knowledge is not enlightenment. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library