ABSTRACT
The last two centuries were familiar with the myth of progress. The present century has adopted the myth of modernity. The vulgarity of the myth or modernity is plainly revealed by the pre-eminence in its mythology of the factors of quantity to be modern is always to beat the record in some respect. The myth of modernity seems to give humanity reasons for fleeing from itself reasons for unhappiness, in as much as the man who runs away from himself is an unhappy man. The tragedy of the modern man is that his civilization has begun to decline at the very moment when, persuaded by the faith of the last few centuries, he was on the point of conceiving and adopting a belief ill progress. Rene Cellendy has said, in effect, that those who have known how to love, know how to die in which saying he condenses his experience as a psychologist and a medical practitioner.
