ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that the humanity of the past, more precisely the humanity of Europe in the Middle Ages, with the values imposed upon it by the "clerks," acted ill but honored the good. This humanity is heading for the greatest and most perfect war ever seen in the world, whether it is a war of nations, or a war of classes. Civilization as the author understand it–moral supremacy conferred on the cult of the spiritual and on the feeling of the universal–appears to the author as a lucky accident in man's development. The chapter shows that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. It also shows that the logical end of the "integral realism" professed by humanity to-day is the organized slaughter of nations or classes.
