Many intelligent and well-meaning men, even in the more enlightened age of these revelations, maintain that modern civilization could not have been built
upon the teachings of Jesus — and they are partially right.
But all such doubters forget that a much better civilization could have been built upon his teachings, and sometime will be.
This world has never seriously tried to carry out the teachings of Jesus on a large scale,
notwithstanding that half-hearted attempts have often been made to follow the doctrines of so-called Christianity.