Excerpt from The Cosmic Commonwealth
The Great War has revealed to us the hollowness of the materialistic civilization on which we had prided ourselves. The social order which our armies and police forces had maintained is breaking up. In many lands settled government is giving place to anarchy, and the semblance of prosperity to the reality of misery and want. Even in those which are more fortunate the turmoil is great, and there is a growing sense of insecurity and a vague foreboding of disaster. We are being borne hither and thither by swirling cross-currents of hatred, jealousy, greed, ambition and self-will. There are other currents than these - larger, deeper, saner, purer. But in this world-wide crisis the more turbulent currents have risen to the surface; and human society has become a veritable Maelstrom, strewn with the wreckage of many institutions and traditions, and threatening shipwreck to many more.
No wonder that the idea of social reconstruction is in the forefront of our thoughts.
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