In the period of your youth, you are studying. What is the meaning of study? It is to prepare for the future. You study to prepare a new foundation based on your present foundation. However, when the prepared elements are inferior to the existing traditional foundation, the prepared one is absorbed into the existing environment and tradition. If the prepared elements are digested and cannot surmount the older foundation, there will be no new historical development. Likewise, young people should be able to view the entire nation and world with a vision and dream. Human society has general standards in fields such as economics, politics, culture, education, and religion. Therefore, in order to surpass these standards, a young person has to prepare.

In this present world, there is the democratic sphere and Communist sphere. Korea stands, on the foundation of painful previous-age circumstances, between the democratic and Communist worlds. How can Korea leap forward from there? Everybody wants to solve this structure of struggle, but it is so difficult. It cannot be solved by an individual or a group. The problem must be solved on the level of the whole country. Therefore, Korea should unify the whole population of the nation spiritually. On that foundation, she can develop her present situation towards a new, higher dimension.

When the government announces new political or economic policy, or when political candidates publish new political policies during their election campaign, from the viewpoint of development those policies are their substantial preparation to leap towards a new dimension in some field. When the policy is better than the present one, its effect can be creative.

Everybody wants to succeed. What shall we do to get success? You have to prepare in order to be successful. After your preparation, you should be able to digest the older foundation and then establish a new foundation based on how you have prepared substantially. The new foundation should surpass the existing foundation. Without such a course of development, a historical new foundation cannot be established. This is the vital conclusion of the development of history. You should know that clearly.

It is the same for our lives as for the country. For instance, the army must train themselves hard. Why do they need to train? When the opponent's foundation is superior, the army must train to surpass them and digest that favorable environment. To do that, information about and the history of the enemy has to be obtained and analyzed, and there must be the power to digest and overcome the environmental foundation of the enemy. For that reason, there needs to be an investment of power. These words apply to all situations. (133-216)