4. The Tenuous Balance (5.28.25)

"It is not that we can never have new ideas or that society can never change, but that, being the kinds of creatures that we are, we must hold in tenuous balance the dreams of the individual and the needs of the community, the passions of the heart and the demands of the moment, high ideals and earthly realities, the desire to build and the duty to preserve." (Louis Markos, Passing the Torch, 40)