Post by M~Apollo on Jul 19, 2018 9:26:24 GMT
The Truth of Kindness
John Ruskin
Modern Painters
(1845)
If there is anything in the world that is spiritual, if there is anything that exists which is Heaven-Born, it is most certainly kindness. In all the usages of mankind, in every path which mortals walk, this great element of love is so much, so deeply, so very sorely needed.
We visit very frequently the schools and institutions of learning in your world and then we read the titles of their principles, and basic foundation very clearly indeed; and we discern that all their efforts in these directions are in the main entirely wrong! The whole system of education in your public schools of learning, is based upon error, so how can the coming generation be right when the first privileges they absorbed in school were almost all wrong? What a monstrous unkindness this is, and what a serious mistake, those who have the power to change it all have made!
The law of love and all branches of natural study should be taught and applied in your schools right along with the common branches of general school routine! But instead of this, the child's brain is cramped at an early age with all means of stuff and pure rubbish which he never will be able to use in his short span of years on the material side, nor either in the Spirit Realms! And thus all the laws of love, charity and kindness are forgotten or crowded aside for there is no time for so much reality on the earth side.
What the mortals seem to desire for their young is simply the show, and fine glitter of perishable things and which are flaunted with great pride today, but tomorrow are cast aside for the great spiritual awakening, when God calls his own! Oh, how many souls go into darkness because those with whom, they lived on earth could not be kind enough to show them e'er the hand of death snatched them from earth, the better and the true way! Oh, the biting cold that will creep into a heart when the real milk of human kindness leaks out! We are making a great struggle and a real battle against the unkindness existing on your side of life.
John Ruskin
Modern Painters
(1845)
If there is anything in the world that is spiritual, if there is anything that exists which is Heaven-Born, it is most certainly kindness. In all the usages of mankind, in every path which mortals walk, this great element of love is so much, so deeply, so very sorely needed.
We visit very frequently the schools and institutions of learning in your world and then we read the titles of their principles, and basic foundation very clearly indeed; and we discern that all their efforts in these directions are in the main entirely wrong! The whole system of education in your public schools of learning, is based upon error, so how can the coming generation be right when the first privileges they absorbed in school were almost all wrong? What a monstrous unkindness this is, and what a serious mistake, those who have the power to change it all have made!
The law of love and all branches of natural study should be taught and applied in your schools right along with the common branches of general school routine! But instead of this, the child's brain is cramped at an early age with all means of stuff and pure rubbish which he never will be able to use in his short span of years on the material side, nor either in the Spirit Realms! And thus all the laws of love, charity and kindness are forgotten or crowded aside for there is no time for so much reality on the earth side.
What the mortals seem to desire for their young is simply the show, and fine glitter of perishable things and which are flaunted with great pride today, but tomorrow are cast aside for the great spiritual awakening, when God calls his own! Oh, how many souls go into darkness because those with whom, they lived on earth could not be kind enough to show them e'er the hand of death snatched them from earth, the better and the true way! Oh, the biting cold that will creep into a heart when the real milk of human kindness leaks out! We are making a great struggle and a real battle against the unkindness existing on your side of life.
