How aptly spoken. If we didn't know these words came from the 19th century, we surely would have ascribed them to a 21st century thinker. We have become too proud, and that is our downfall, as it has been the downfall of those who've gone before. What's hopeful is the opportunity we have to change, and it begins with individual will. Each person must make a commitment to acknowledge God, to admit their own failure, to subscribe to the principles in the Bible as being the measure of all truth. I pray we will change, but the hearts of men are deceitful, wicked, and proud, who would rather go to hell and bring others than bend their knees now at their own volition. Each one has the opportunity to be saved by God through Jesus Christ. Why would anyone reject such an offer for fleeting pleasures and destructive sin .... Men loved darkness rather than light ... because their deeds were evil ... and they were controlled by fear.