Was Christ Jesus making an impossible demand on the multitudes to whom he preached when he said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect"?
The concept of progress—the notion that somehow or other steady betterment is taking place for individuals and for society— is being increasingly questioned.
What if someone living in an isolated house in a lonely wood felt imprisoned in the house because he heard sounds of what he believed to be dangerous animals coming from the wood?
