A Second Characteristic Of Our Time Is

As To Judging Our Own Time, And Thereby Gaining Some Basis For A Judgment Of Future Possibilities, We Are Doubtless Not Only Too Close To It To Appraise It But Too Much Formed By It And Enclosed Within It To Do So.

A Dark And Terrible Side Of This Sense Of Community Of Interests Is The Fear Of A Horrible Common Destiny Which In These Days Of Atomic Weapons Darkens Men's Minds All Around The Globe.

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.

The Role Of Italy And Of Austria Has Diminished As Has That Of France And Britain; Germany And Japan Have Suffered Catastrophically.

Technology Gives Us The Facilities That Lessen The Barriers Of Time And Distance - The Telegraph And Cable, The Telephone, Radio, And The Rest.