My Life

My Life - Oswald Mosleysynthesis of these two impulses of the human movement. I went so far as to say thathigher forms could have the force of a science and a religion, in the secular sense,since it derived both from the evolutionary process first recognised in the last century,and from the philosophy, perhaps the mysticism, well described as the 'eternalbecoming', which Hellenism first gave to Europe as an original and continuingmovement still represented in the thinking, architecture and music of the mainEuropean tradition.To simplify and synthesise are the chief gifts which clear thought can bring, and neverhave they been so deeply needed as in this age. A healing synthesis is required, aunion of Hellenism's calm but radiant embrace of the beauty and wonder of life withthe Gothic impulse of new discoveries urging man to reach beyond his presentlyprecarious balance until sanity itself is threatened. The genius of Hellas can still giveback to Europe the life equilibrium, the firm foundation from which science can graspthe stars. He who can combine within himself this sanity and this dynamism becomesthereby a higher form, and beyond him can be an ascent revealing always a furtherwisdom and beauty. It is a personal ideal for which all can try to live, a purpose in life.We can thus resume the journey to further summits of the human spirit with measureand moderation won from the struggle and tribulation of these years. We may even inthis time of folly and sequent adversity gain the balance of maturity which alone canmake us worthy of the treasures, capable of using the miraculous endowment, andalso of averting the tempestuous dangers, of modern science. We may at last acquirethe adult mind, without which the world cannot survive, and learn to use with wisdomand decision the wonders of this age.I hope that this record of my own small part in these great affairs and still greaterpossibilities has at least shown that I have 'the repugnance to mean and cruel dealings'which the wise old man ascribed to me so long ago, and yet have attempted by someunion of mind and will to combine thought and deed; that I have stood withconsistency for the construction of a worthy dwelling for humanity, and at all costagainst the rage and folly of insensate and purposeless destruction; that I havefollowed the truth as I saw it, wherever that service led me, and have ventured to lookand strive through the dark to a future that can make all worth while.423 of 424