ABSTRACT
The danger of an all-destructive war hangs over the head of humanity, a danger which is by no means overcome by the spirit of Geneva prevalent at the time of this writing. But even if man's political representatives have enough sanity left to avoid a war, man's condition is far from the fulfillment of the hopes of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Man's character has been molded by the demands of the world he has built with his own hands. As a citizen modern man is willing even to give his life for his fellow men; as a private individual, he is filled with an egotistical concern for himself. In spite of increasing production and comfort, man loses more and more the sense of self, feels that his life is meaningless, even though such feeling is largely unconscious. In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it meant schizoid self-alienation.
