CYCLE FORTY-NINE

1. The cynicism and viciousness of average people is due, in large measure, to the vacuousness of their minds. Were they less mentally or spiritually vacuous, they would not be subject to the critical rages which afflict them at the slightest provocation.

2. The snide presumptions directed at others, particularly at exceptional men, by ill-natured people ... is usually a sad reflection of the hollowness and emptiness of their minds, over which they have only the merest control.

3. Good people do not ordinarily become bad or bad people good. Good people remain good and bad people bad, and so has it always been, given the temperamental and intellectual, not to mention genetic, factors which underline behaviour. Only ... sometimes appearances suggest the contrary!