There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.