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We Are Living In A Demented World. And We Know It. It Would Not Come As A Surprise To Anyone If Tomorrow The Madness Gave Way To Afrenzy Which Would Leave Our Poor Europe In A State Of Distracted Stupor, With Engines Still Turning And Flags Streaming In The Breeze, But With The Spirit Gone.

The Things Which Can Make Life Enjoyable Remain The Same. They Are, Now As Before, Reading, Music, Fine Arts, Travel, The Enjoyment Of Nature, Sports, Fashion, Social Vanity (knightly Orders, Honorary Offices, Gatherings) And The Intoxication Of The Senses.

People Accept A Representation In Which The Elements Of Wish And Fantasy Are Purposely Included But Which Nevertheless Proclaims To Represent "the Past" And To Serve As A Guide-rule For Life, Thereby Hopelessly Confusing The Spheres Of Knowledge And Will.

If, Then, This Civilization Is To Be Saved, If It Is Not To Be Submerged By Centuries Of Barbarism, But To Secure The Treasures Ofits Inheritance On New And More Stable Foundations, There Is Indeed Need For Those Now Living Fully To Realize How Far The Decay Has Already Progressed.

The Susceptibility Of The Average Modern To Pictorial Suggestion Enables Advertising To Exploit His Lessened Power Of Judgment.