The Survival of Western Culture

AN American professor who has been influenced but not converted by Spongier takes up the formidable problem of the destiny of Western culture. He endeavors to apply the quantum theory, which has gained ground in modern physics, to history. Without blinking the challenge to individual personality which the modern age presents, the author finds some ground for hoping that there will be no catastrophic breakdown of civilization in the fact that education and a minimum of culture are far more widely distributed than in any previous era. He stresses the importance of spiritual reformation and finds comfort in some modern scientific theories which attribute inherent activity to the atom.