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佐藤栄作　受賞論文集

第20回優秀賞To see the world in a grain of sandAnd Heaven in a wildflowerHold Infinity in the palms of your handAnd Eternity in an hour.”To be perpetually a child, it suffices to take millenniums of great human discoveries,sufferings, comedies, tragedies, questionings, uncertainties, doubts and answers andreduce them into an insignificant grain of sand. It suffices to narrow inconceivablytranscendental and metaphysical ideas that tormented men for centuries, such asHeaven, Infinity and Eternity, to terrestrial, measurable, fragile and perishable things.It suffices to keep, however aware of what is like to be a child and what tragicconsequences it brings, freely choosing to stay in childhood.5．The Rise and the Decline of a NationA quick overview in the history of the 193 UN member-states immediately confirmsOrtega Y Gasset’s interpretation of history and refutes accusations of aristocratic andelitist bias in his views. Select minorities, without exception, conducted the masses incritical times, and threaded way to the rise of the nations: George Washington in thenewly independent United States, Konrad Adenauer in Germany’s redevelopment andYoshida Shigeru in Japan’s reconstruction, both from the ruins of the Second WorldWar, Charles de Gaulle in French resistance in 1940-3 and in France’s modernizationas head of Government later on, Vaclav Havel in Czech Republic and Leh Valensa inPoland, both leading the fight against Soviet socialism in their countries - examplesabound in the world. All of these select minorities succeeded in defining andachieving common constructive goals, mainly the institutionalization and the defense303