We see here that something is missing in the modern world. Having abandoned belief in the teachings and dogmas of the religions and having gone over to replacing these with scientific results in weights and measures, one has abandoned living facts to live on dead ones. That this is true becomes a fact through the circumstance that mankind today finds itself in the middle of a desperate and apparently hopeless struggle for its existence, in the middle of its abundance of material knowledge and ability, in the midst of its extraordinarily advanced, enormously powerful machines by means of which it produces useful objects by the thousand: clothing, light and warmth as well as a profusion of foodstuffs more than sufficient to abundantly cover terrestrial mankind's consumption. And with whom then is it that mankind is engaged in a dangerous struggle? Indeed, it is, however incredible it may sound, exclusively with itself. In its spiritual blindness it mobilises its entire material knowledge and ability in favour of the killing principle. And with the most ingeniously devised murder-techniques it brings about a mass stabbing of its own body, collective mankind. In addition to the fact that it sabotages and shatters a mass of the ingenious cultural amenities and expressions of humaneness, which it has itself previously built up, it tortures, mutilates and murders by the million its own life-cells, which means those individuals or people of whom it consists, at the same time as it turns great and fertile areas into battlefields, into terrains of death, into deserts, and huge metropolises into heaps of ruins.