A gem from Camus

A GEM OF CAMUS

"Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world.  Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater.  It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.  … In a world threatened by disintegration, in which our grand inquisitors run the risk of establishing forever the kingdom of death, it knows that it should, in an insane race against the clock, restore among the nations a peace that is not servitude, reconcile anew labour and culture, and remake with all men the Ark of the Covenant."  - Albert Camus, December 1957