In this Day whatsoever serveth to reduce blindness and to increase vision is worthy of consideration. This vision acteth as the agent and guide for true knowledge. Indeed in the estimation of men of wisdom keenness of understanding is due to keenness of vision.
Robert L. Heilbroner says in his The Great Ascent, “the populations of the great continents of the East and South” “effected little or no noticeable change in the character of twentieth-century civilization.