Never has the human race enjoyed such an abundance of wealth, resources and
economic power, and yet a huge proportion of the worlds citizens are still
tormented by hunger and poverty, while countless numbers suffer from total
illiteracy. Never before has man had so keen an understanding of freedom, yet at
the same time new forms of social and psychological slavery make their
appearance. Although the world of today has a very vivid awareness of its unity
and of how one man depends on another in needful solidarity, it is most
grievously turn into opposing camps by conflicting forces. For political,
social, economic, racial and ideological disputes still continue bitterly, and
with them the peril of a war which would reduce everything to ashes. True, there
is a growing exchange of ideas, but the very words by which key concepts are
expressed take on quite different meanings in diverse ideological systems.
Finally, man painstakingly searches for a better world, without a corresponding
spiritual advancement.
