A share from Bishop Melchisedek Pleska of Pittsburgh OCA Diocese How many have died or been maimed in chemicalor biological research . . . how many dead and still to die in the conquest of the air, or in that last exploration which gives this generation its nearest approach to religious ecstasy, the annihilation of speed in space? . . . It is not that these are not grieved for: but they are not grudged. No generous spirit will shirk the arduous, provided it be unknown. We do not grudge it that these should have left wife and children and lands for the flick of a needle on the speedometer, or "a still life of a pair of old shoes" (ref. to Gauguin and Van Gogh). The only field of research in which a man may not make sacrifices, under pain of being called a fanatic, is God. Helen Waddell - "The Desert Fathers"
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:42:21 +0000
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