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But the Europeans did not act on the mission that was designated them which consisted of pondering these elements, modifying their configuration, changing them and finally taking the problem of man to an infinitely higher plane.

There were European who urged the workers to smash this narcissism and break with this denial of reality. But generally speaking, the workers did not respond to the call. The workers believed they too were part of the prodigious adventure of the European Spirit.
All the elements for a solution to the major problems of humanity existed at one time or another in European thought.