“We allow ourselves to hope that the world will emerge from its present troubles, that it will one day learn to give the direction of its affairs, not to cruel swindlers and scoundrels, but to women and men possessed of integral wisdom and courage. We see before us a shining vision: a world where none are hungry, where few are ill, where work is pleasant and not excessive, where kindly feeling is the norm, where extremism and extremist ideologies, which completely dominate us today, will no longer find supporters and where minds released from fear create delight for the eye, ear and heart. Do not say this is impossible. It is not impossible. We are already living this vision today, not always to the fullest extent, but to the extent that it can be a model worthy of comprehensive study and further development. We do not say it can be done tomorrow, but we say that it could be done within five hundred years, if only people would bend their minds to the achievement of the kind of happiness that should be distinctive of humankind. The Board of Trustees, George Grow Foundation.