emmanuel mused quietly on the notion of a human society guided with greater compassion , but also with greater ambition and clarity in the direction of its absolute potential ; a human society in which wars ( however destructive and violent ) were declared more out of big-picture necessity than out of self-serving greed ; a human society which retained as its virtue the overall betterment and progress of its kind , in addition to the betterment of those other species with which it coexisted .