ABSTRACT
The crisis is omnipresent and involves almost the whole of culture and society from top to bottom. It is manifest in the fine arts and science, in philosophy and religion, in ethics and law. Calamities and the crisis will influence science and art, philosophy and ethics, and other cultural phenomena in the same polarized modes. In part of the population there will be an increase of emotional and affective instability, irritability, depressive moods, and other such aforementioned painful experiences that accompany each and all of these calamities. There will also be an increase of various mental disturbances, psychoneuroses and psychic diseases. Various mental epidemics will afflict many persons. But again, such mental derangements will by no means spread over the whole population of the societies in crisis. As to the biological or inherited quality of the population that will result, all in all it probably will not differ greatly from what it was before the calamities.
