STANFORD, California () -- Czech President Vaclav Havel said Thursday that Western democracies must rediscover and embrace their "missing side, a spiritual dimension that connects all humanity".


At Stanford University, Havel said Western odels were lacking. The right to free expression and free enterprise, are merely "technical instruments" to help people live in freedom.


"But in and of themselves, they cannot guarantee human dignity, freedom and responsibility. The source of these basic human potentials lie elsewhere: in man's relationship to that which transcends him."


However, he said he had no formula to awaken humanity to a sense of spirituality and responsibility


"Given its fatal incorrigibility, humanity probably will have to go through many more Rwandas and Chernobyls before it understands how unbelievably short-sighted a human being can be who has forgotten that he is not God," he said.