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Submitted by Lino Leitao: lino.leitao at sympatico.ca
A thought from Prof. Francisco Correia-Afonso
RELATIVE IMMORTALITY: What most men use, what all men can use, to fill the
emptiness of life, and if possible, to achieve fame and immortality in the
process, is the greatest gift that God has given us, the gift of
creativeness, by which we are made collaborators of the Creator. Modern life
seems emptier than in the past, because under the mass production system,
the workman does not find scope for his creativeness. To man has been given
the gift of creating life itself, and the modern man is being robbed even of
this gift. "Every child that is born into this world," said Rabindranath
Tagore, "is a proof that God has not despaired of humanity." But modern man
seems to have despaired of himself. He is afraid of life. It remains true,
however, that only through creative work we can achieve a relative
immortality on earth. To write a book, to plant a tree, to raise a child,
still remains summun bonum of human life. -- Francisco Correia-Afonso in a
radio broadcast, 1953
