Foundations for Reconstruction [antikvár]

Introduction THE PROBLEM OF OUR TIME In the great and moving drama of our age the prologue has been completed. For a generation our ablest prophets have told us that we were living at the end of an age and now we know that this analysis was correct. We have lived in "the end of our time" and we can date it. The date was August 6, 1945. The stage has been set, the chief actors have appeared and the conditions of the coming struggle have been established. The prologue has been terrific, but a prologue it has truly been. It has told us what the play is to be about, but has given little hint of the outcome. Now we know certain facts which thoughtful people everywhere recognize. It is agreed that the maturity of technology will be a dominant factor, that our world will be one world for good or ill and that the fundamental systems according to which human Hfe will be organized will be very few. As the dramatic movement at the middle of the twentieth century begins, we can be reasonably sure that