What follows is an extract from Abraham Kuyper and the Rebirth of True Knowledge. To read the full text, click “Download” below.
Today we live in a very explosive world!
There are political explosions. For bombs are detonated in post offices and airports, and insurrectionists seek to overthrow governments from Chile to Cambodia. There are population explosions. For there are a score of countries with a limited territorial area or with a chronic food shortage — from India to Israel, and from Holland to Hong Kong. And there is also a knowledge explosion, especially in the sciences and in technology — in schools and colleges and universities throughout the entire world.