THE REGION OF REASON

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty?”. The question arises whether this remark is still applicable to man .As 'reason ' no longer seems to dominate the actions of man as obvious from his actions. There is a great transformation in the mindset of man, not for the good but for the worst .It is because man's mind is no longer within his domain, his actions have no co-relation with his thought process. The catastrophe which menaces man results from his own thoughts and ideals. If he passively submits to the forces that have raised, he is calling for his own destruction at his own hands. If there is one power that man possesses is his power to alter his own way of life. He should at best try to recover his creative powers. Self destruction 'is the result of human criminality so outrageous that even the highest art cannot do justice to it. Man can decide his own future and can make or mar his own fortune. He should at best feel that he has a responsibility to the whole of mankind and merely to his own adherents. The natural reason of man seems at first to shine brightly but it is in fact 'a torch in a misty night’, 'while the inner light' of right reasoning seems to burn perennially and 'shall grow up from a fair hope, to modest assurance, and that, that light shall never go out, and neither the works of darkness nor the prince of darkness can ever prevail upon it. It is said that people have sufficient knowledge to create a great civilization but not sufficient 'wisdom 'to protect it from being ruined. Can we not become its protector too?