What is missing to our civilization, is the soul, the spiritual unity, the basis. That is why everything in it is pretense and contrivance; why also, in spite of the progress and marvelous improvement they have accomplished in the external realm men have, in general, become themselves neither better, nor happier. They have neglected too much the essential; their own perfecting.

Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937)