Yeats’ lines that ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity’ has never seemed as apposite. The world is healthier, wealthier, more egalitarian, better educated and more just than ever before. The scientific-industrial revolutions and the Enlightenment that originated in the West rescued us from the Hobbesian state of nature that made life nasty, brutish and short.
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