A Man Around Fifty.

In Germany the complete servitude of the men of knowledge to scoundrels of action became the essence of doom. But all over the world knowledge and power were — and still are — completely severed. Wars and revolutions, cyclic depressions, mass movements and political crises are but the secondary symptoms of a new fact or a new truth, born in some quiet laboratory, conceived by some creative brain and transformed into forceful aggressions as inescapable as the will of God. The state of this earth depends entirely on one's understanding of the structure and process of life and no human, activity, no justice, no freedom, no faith, no happiness can be maintained without such understanding.