It may all be possible.

But your words awaken in my mind but vague conceptions." "The history of the world, as well as your own observation, will tell you that all advances toward perfection are made with slow steps.

And further, that all changes in the character of a whole people simply indicate the changes that have taken place in the individuals who compose that people.

The national character is but its aggregated personal character.

If the world is better now than it was fifty years ago, it is because individual men and women are becoming better--that is, less selfish, for in self-love lies the germ of all evil.