About one-third of the membership leads the way by making plans and executing them. The second third goes along for the ride, being neither activist nor obstructionist. The third group usually drags its feet, either by opposing any idea that may cost money or by simply being apathetic. Reverence and respect are alike in that they both involve the feeling of admiration for something. However, reverence pushes this feeling further than does respect, into the realm of worshipful awe.
Respect is barren compared with reverence.
One respects what he fully understands, but one reverses what remains partially mysterious. Thus acts of respect tend to be plain and direct whereas, acts of reverence tend to be ritualistic and ceremonial. The different physical characteristics of each race of people in this world have developed over thousands of years usually as a result of adaptation to climate. The Eskimos, for example, have a thick, fatty, upper eyelid to prevent the eyeball from freezing in the extremely frigid weather of Alaska. Before the dry desert air gets to the delicate tissue of the lung, the air is humidified in the Arabs' long nasal characteristics.