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This present \"civilization\" ... has brought to all strata of society and to all races the following
\"gifts”: restlessnes, dissatisfaction, resentment, the need to go further and faster, and the inability to possess one\'s life in simplicity, independence, and balance. Modern civilization has pushed man onward; it has generated in him the need for an increasingly greater number of things; it has made him more and more insufficient to himself and powerless.
FROM CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVEEven though it may be destined to disappear, modern civilization is certainly not the first to become extinct, nor is it the one after which none will follow. In the life of what is conditioned by space and time, lights are continually being put out and kindled again; cycles end and new ones begin. As I have said, the doctrine of the cycles was known to traditional man, and only the ignorance of modern man has induced him to believe that his civilization, which is characterized by the deepest roots in the temporal and contingent clement, will enjoy a different and privileged fate.
FROM THE CONCLUSIONISBN 978-0-89281-506-7
