Principles of western civilisation

Vv THE PROBLEM 149

This is the problem upon which the curtain rises in history in the era of our Western civilisation in which we are living. In the whole span of the history of the included period hardly more than the first outlines of the problem have yet begun to be portrayed. It is the distant-voiced consciousness of the position therein being defined which runs like a cosmic undertone throughout all the philosophy of the race. No essential of the dramatic, no element of the sublime, is wanting. Every quality of the deepest human pathos, every constituent of the highest scientific interest, is present.