Says W. R. Maltby: "The world is what it is, not because
Story★★★★Says W. R. Maltby: “The world is what it is, not because of the superlative wickedness of a few bad men, but because of the ordinary selfishness, prejudice, ignorance, and laziness of mankind — that is of you and of me — which has worked up to this sum of wickedness and cruelty. If we see around us a world which cannot unify itself, cannot exercise its baseness, cannot even keep its wounds from festering, some of us remember a story very like all this much nearer home.” If a man cannot unify his own life, need he wonder that the world at large cannot do the greater things?
The point
A quote from W.R. Maltby reflecting that the world's problems stem not from exceptional wickedness but from ordinary human selfishness and inability to unify one's own life.