DEVELOPMENT
Development
means growth, evolution, expansion,
progress, headway, magnification, enlargement, elaboration, un-folding, etc.
History
tells us that development is a continuous process. It started with the creation
of the world and will continue till the end of the world.
There
is no definite proof about the time when the world was born; nor can there be
any prediction as to when the world
cease to exist.
One
thing however seems to be certain. The evolution of the world started as soon as the world came into
existence and is still on.
It
is also true that many civilizations rose and fell. They disappeared after attaining vast development.
It was, one can believe, according to the laws of nature which are still in
operation.
As
for modern times, there has been very fast and amazing developments since the
industrial revolution. Not very long back, there were no modern telephones,
mobiles, trains, aeroplanes, automatic arms,
nuclear weapons, underground metros, computers, internets, radios, televisions,
etc.
Now,
not a day passes when something new or novel version of old things does not see
the light of the day. Artificial intelligence is the latest example in the
world of computers.
To
put it briefly, there is nothing permanent in the world. The English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) said in a
poem:
The
old order changeth, yielding place to the new, and God fulfills Himself in many
ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
In
another poem on the eve of the new year he says:
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells across the snow:
The year is going, let him go:
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Continuous
development means : ceaseless change, innovation, replacement, reconstruction, realization
of the unrealized potential, replacement of wrong beliefs by the true laws of
nature, etc.
To
conclude, final development is impossible till the end of this evolutionary
world.
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G.R.Kanwal
29 September 2025
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