Author: Layton Crippen

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-06-13

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781073636457

THE world is ready for a new Civilization. Since the dawn of history, since the day when the wise King told his people to live by Law, it has learned and suffered much. It has lived for pleasure, the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh, and has grown satiated. In a fever of disgust it has mortified the body that the soul might be redeemed, and has become sick of renunciation. Then it has turned to pleasure again, pleasure less innocent and more alluring because of the haunting fear of an offended God. And now the world is a-weary. The old ideals, the old faiths, the old incentives to hope and noble effort are fast vanishing. Christianity is no longer a religion, but a sweet memory which the people cannot bring themselves to abandon. The ethics of Christianity have already disappeared before the persistent questioning which is the surest sign of the end of an era. There is a babel of voices, an inferno of activities, but there are few now-a-days who hope. Quo Vadis? is the cry again, but this time there is none to answer. Despair is the dominant note in music and art and literature - despair and wistful longing for days gone by. Pessimism has become a creed, which gains new followers every day, Schopenhauer and Hartmann are its prophets. Fitz-Gerald and James Thomson are its psalmists, and its apostles are in every land.