ABSTRACT
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the resistless forces that pervade his outward life. The mutual unintelligibility among most contemporary thinkers, their apparent inability to communicate the meaning and purpose of their ideas to those of differing opinions, the paucity of their knowledge pertaining to the subjects and researches of others, all this has grown to be as profound as it is ominous for the future of mankind, and the possibility of clarifying the confusion and of dissipating the distortions seems to be desperately remote. Human thoughts and knowledge have never before been so abundant, so kaleidoscopic, so vast, and yet, at the same time, never so diffused, so inchoate, so directionless. Human anxiety and restlessness, the dark loneliness of man amid hostile forces, exist commensurately.
