There is in human thought today, especially among alert but troubled young people, a deep dissatisfaction with things as they have been and an earnest desire to build a better world.
The new American President, Richard M. Nixon, said in his Inaugural Address that today's young people are "more passionately driven by conscience than any generation in our history."
This may well be true, although the historian remembers the generation in the years preceding the American Civil War, of which Mary Baker was a youthful part, and which felt a deep conscientious revulsion to human slavery.
