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A Postscript Chapter 581up the psychological possibilities which are there in the natureand stand in the way of its spiritual perfection and fulfilment soas to eliminate them, even, it may be, the sleeping possibilitieswhich might arise in future to break the work that has beendone, so too Nature acts with the world-forces that meet heron her way, not only calling up those which will assist her butraising too, so as to finish with them, those that she knows tobe the normal or even the unavoidable obstacles which cannotbut start up to impede her secret will. This one has often seenin the history of mankind; one sees it exampled today with anenormous force commensurable with the magnitude of the thingthat has to be done. But always these resistances turn out to haveassisted by the resistance much more than they have impededthe intention of the great Creatrix and her Mover.We may then look with a legitimate optimism on what hasbeen hitherto achieved and on the prospects of further achievementin the future. This optimism need not and should not blindus to undesirable features, perilous tendencies and the possibilitiesof serious interruptions in the work and even disorders inthe human world that might possibly subvert the work done.As regards the actual conditions of the moment it may even beadmitted that most men nowadays look with dissatisfaction onthe defects of the United Nations Organisation and its blundersand the malignancies that endanger its existence and many feela growing pessimism and regard with doubt the possibility ofits final success. This pessimism it is unnecessary and unwise toshare; for such a psychology tends to bring about or to makepossible the results which it predicts but which need not at allensue. At the same time, we must not ignore the danger. Theleaders of the nations, who have the will to succeed and whowill be held responsible by posterity for any avoidable failure,must be on guard against unwise policies or fatal errors; thedeficiencies that exist in the organisation or its constitution haveto be quickly remedied or slowly and cautiously eliminated; ifthere are obstinate oppositions to necessary change, they havesomehow to be overcome or circumvented without breaking theinstitution; progress towards its perfection, even if it cannot be