A Pilgrim’s Digression

Quote of the day:

I was born in France, educated in France, England, and America. My outlook is not purely American and I feel sometimes disturbed by the lack of balance in the powerful civilization of this country. It is technologically very strong, spiritually superficial and weak. There is much good in the people, who are very simple and kind, but there is much potential evil in the irresonsibility of a society that leaves all to the interplay of human appetites, assuming that everything will adjustitself automatically for the good of all.

Merton to Abdul Aziz, letter of April 4, 1962