The crisis of the age inheres in this, that notwithstanding the century's mind-numbing disasters, it persists in subscribing to propositions which have logically led to the atomization of the whole cloth of human experiencing, and being. Great indeed is the value which is placed on the procedure of analytic dismemberment. While the method has certainly been result-producing, materially, in its wake it has brought immense suffering - both physical and spiritual. The price paid for a lopsided advance is thirty major wars - with their toll of one hundred and thirty million lives, and the irreparable destruction of the natural environment.
Modern Civilization : A Crisis of Fragmentation