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Custom: Lest One Good Custom Corrupt the World:

"We all know the lines

'The old order changeth, yielding place to the new,

And God fulfils himself in many ways,'

"But we're not so familiar with the next line, which is:

'Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.'

"That's the point about one good custom-- if change is

inexorable-- holding on to a custom which was satisfactory

yesterday, may be an obstacle to evolution today.

"We are now at a point where all of humanity is coming into

a new fundamental relationship in Universe. . . . It's man's

mind that has access to those eternal principles. There are

no exceptions to the principles therefore they are inherently

eternal. The larger complex of Universe is never predicted

by the lesser. It is grand strategies of working from the

whole to the particular which will characterize our education

in the future, abandoning any thought that the parts are

going to tell you about the whole. That's what Tennyson was

trying to get at."

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