of the world a real revolution, brutally active and decisive,
which was not preceded by unrest and new dogma in the reign
of invisible things. All revolutions began by being abstract.
Most revolutions began by being quite pedantically abstract.

The wind is up above the world before a twig on the tree has moved.
So there must always be a battle in the sky before there
is a battle on the earth. Since it is lawful to pray
for the coming of the kingdom, it is lawful also to pray for
the coming of the revolution that shall restore the kingdom.
It is lawful to hope to hear the wind of Heaven in the trees.
It is lawful to pray "Thine anger come on earth as it
is in Heaven."

. . . . .

The great human dogma, then, is that the wind moves the trees.
The great human heresy is that the trees move the wind.
When people begin to say that the material circumstances have
alone created the moral circumstances, then they have prevented
all possibility of serious change. For if my circumstances
have made me wholly stupid, how can I be certain even that I
am right in altering those circumstances?

The man who represents all thought as an accident of environment
is simply smashing and discrediting all his own thoughts--
including that one. To treat the human mind as having an ultimate
authority is necessary to any kind of thinking, even free thinking.
And nothing will ever be reformed in this age or country unless
we realise that the moral fact comes first.