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is still forceful and is dominating our individual and social behaviour and due to this our life is full of excitements, emotional disorders and mental tensions. The more advanced a nation, stronger the grip of these evils of our age over it. The single most specific feature by which our age may be characterized is that of tension. Nowadays, not only the individuals, but the total human race is living in tension.
Though outwardly we are pleading for peace and nonviolence yet by heart we still have strong faith in the law of the jungle, i.e. the dictum - "might is right.' We are living for the satisfaction of our animal nature only, though we talk of higher social and spiritual values. This duality or the gulf between our thought and action is the sole factor disturbing our inner as well as outer peace. Once the faith in higher values or even in our fellow beings is shaken and we start seeing each and every person or a community or a nation with the eyes of doubt, definitely, it is the sign of disturbed mentality.
Because of materialistic and mechanical outlook our faculty in faith has been destroyed and when the mutual faith and faith in higher values of co-operation and co-existence is destroyed, doubts take pace. The doubt causes fear, fear gives birth to violence and violence triggers violence. The present violence is the result of our materialistic attitude and doubting nature. The most valuable thing, human race has lost in the present age, is none other than peace
Science and technology has given us all the amenities of life. Though, due to the speedy advancement in science and technology nowadays, life on earth is so luxurious and pleasant as it was never before yet because of the selfish and materialistic outlook and doubting nature of man, which we have developed. Today, very few persons are happy and cheerful. We are living in tension all the
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