Excerpt from Facing Reality
In the following pages I have tried to show the danger in which our civilisation stands owing to its neglect of reality. Our advance in mechanical power during the last century and a half has transformed the conditions of human life. Its ever increasing pace and complexity call for a corresponding advance in mental and social organisation.
No such advance has been made or even seriously attempted. We have gone on feverishly improving the machines and leaving the rest to chance; in consequence, our increased powers have been turned to wasteful and mutually destructive purposes. We have the power to smash civilisation to pieces and both in the international and domestic spheres are preparing to use it, for want of a sane attempt to order our affairs to the best advantage.
I have first tried to show the nature and unique urgency of the crisis through which civilisation is passing. I have next traced its development out of the failure of mankind to adapt itself mentally to its advance in physical power. In default of any rational effort to control the situation, free play was given to an anarchy of egotisms, private and national, which not only dissipated the hard-won spoils of nature but actually turned them to a fearful menace.
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