| TOMAS: Yes, always are [[social]] [[groups]] gregarious. Even the [[barbarians]] are smart enough to know that there is [[power]] in mass. | | TOMAS: Yes, always are [[social]] [[groups]] gregarious. Even the [[barbarians]] are smart enough to know that there is [[power]] in mass. |
− | THOROAH: It almost seems as though this country of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America United States of America] began with a real [[potential]], the groundwork for such a [[community]], based on the [[ideals]] on which it was founded. | + | THOROAH: It almost seems as though this country of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America United States of America] began with a real [[potential]], the groundwork for such a [[community]], based on the [[ideals]] on which it was founded. |
− | TOMAS: Yes, and had it been able to withstand the lure of [[adventure]] to foster its newfound [[freedom]] in genuine spiritual pursuits, it might have succeeded in creating a colony of [[light and life]], and yet, in an [[understanding]] of [[evolution]], it is appropriate that your world be [[explored]], and the adventure lure of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier the people moving west] was [[necessary]] and desirable. The early days of the United States certainly did have within it the [[seeds]] for a great civilization and in many ways has attained its goals but it is fraught with [[problems]]. | + | TOMAS: Yes, and had it been able to withstand the lure of [[adventure]] to foster its newfound [[freedom]] in genuine spiritual pursuits, it might have succeeded in creating a colony of [[light and life]], and yet, in an [[understanding]] of [[evolution]], it is appropriate that your world be [[explored]], and the adventure lure of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier the people moving west] was [[necessary]] and desirable. The early days of the United States certainly did have within it the [[seeds]] for a great civilization and in many ways has attained its goals but it is fraught with [[problems]]. |