ABSTRACT
The planetary unity of the world and of mankind, which is becoming a reality today, opens up the factual universal history of the earth, world history. The long prehistory embraces the course of man's becoming that ran through the formation of languages and races to the inception of the historical cultures. It leads us into the enigma of humanity, to consciousness of the uniqueness of man amongst the creatures of the earth, it sets us before the problem of our freedom, which must be connected with the origin of all things, and which confronts us nowhere else in the world. The world has become European through the adoption of European technology and the European demands of nationalism, and it is successfully turning both against Europe. Europe, as the old Europe, is no longer the dominant factor in the world. It has abdicated, overshadowed by America and Russia, upon whose policies the fate of Europe hangs.
