Martin Luther King's The World House

Martin Luther King's "The World House" is a deeply probing, insightful commentary on our world. It accurately pegs the root causes of society's problems and malaise, and just as accurately identifies the changes we need to make to relieve them. Although King discusses racial strife, poverty, and war, his argument rises above these issues to examine society's ills in the light of the omniscient perspective of the Creator. King sees society as part of a continuum that started with Moses and continues past today; it transcends all boundaries and embodies the state of humanity as a whole. As he succinctly puts it, "All life is interrelated." His assessment of humanity from this vantagepoint is that its ageless problems derive from a failure to love one another and a lack of awareness that what hurts one of us hurts us all.

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