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These considerations should not render us too pessimistic, however. One may note,

without completely excluding the danger, an amelioration of the situation in

comparison to what it was at the end of the second world war. We are caught in the
storm still; but a few rays of light, piercing the clouds, shine in the darkness.

Even though modern man is foundering in darkness due to the fact that he has

neglected the cultivation of his Personality, and even though he is imprudent enough to
taste all the fruits of the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, at least he has made

outstanding progress in the technological field, through the constancy of his intellectual

efforts. Contrary to the opinion held by certain religious or secular philosophers, the

considerable material resources that man has at his disposal, far from handicapping

him, should eliminate a number of problems falling under his head and should facilitate
his harmonious development, foreseen for the Cycle of the Holy Ghost.

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Material progress should, however, be considered as a means and not as an end. It

should not overlap its role which is to serve moral progress with the means at its
disposal. It is only on this condition, imposed by the Divinity, that man may escape the

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curse that was pronounced at the time of the fall of Adam and Eve , and, instead of
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rendering his talents sterile , use them for the aims of the Fulfilment.

We have insisted very often on the fact that the gulf between science and religion
constitutes the most important obsta-

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Genesis, III, 19.
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Matt., XXV, 25.