Every Great Movement In The History Of

It Is The Religious Impulse Which Supplies The Cohesive Force Which Unifies A Society And A Culture... A Society Which Has Lost Its Religion Becomes Sooner Or Later A Society Which Has Lost Its Culture.

The Present Age Has Seen A Great Slump In Humanist Values.

Yet Humanitarianism Is Not A Purely Christian Movement Any More Than It Is A Purely Humanist One

The Sublimated Idealism Of The Enlightenment, The Spirit Of The League Of Nations And Of The United Nations Charter Have Not Proved Strong Enough To Control The Aggressive Dynamism Of Nationalism.

No Civilisation, Not Even That Of Ancient Greece, Has Ever Undergone Such A Continuous And Profound Process Of Change As Western Europe Has Done During The Last 900 Years. It Is Impossible To Explain This Fact In Purely Economic Terms By A Materialistic Interpretation Of History. The Principle Of Change Has Been A Spiritual One And The Progress Of Western Civilisation Is Intimately Related To The Dynamic Ethos Of Western Christianity, Which Has Gradually Made Western Man Conscious Of His Moral Responsibility And His Duty To Change The World.