- Reawakened interest in religion is the product of historical forces that are gaining momentum.
- For over a hundred years, progress was identified soley with material development. Extreme forms culminated in totalitarian regimes.
- Other systems, while repudiating inhumane methods, derived their thrust from the same limited conception of reality. The resulting social ills can no longer be ignored.
- Even programs of “social and economic development” have proved a disheartening failure.
- The “gospel of human betterment” ultimately created a culture that fails to meet humanity’s deepest needs. The resulting perversions of truth reveal a civilization in decline.
- Materialism's error lies not in its laudable efforts to improve life, but in the disengagement of material progress from spiritual and moral development.