Cody Gilman’s Reviews > The Road to Mecca > Status Update

“all our (Europe/Europeans) machines and skyscrapers could do nothing to restore the broken wholeness of our souls” (pg 96)

Interesting commentary on Muslim prayer pages 86-87.

“On the cultural side, the outcome was the creation of a human type whose morality appeared to be confined to the question of practical utility alone, and whose highest criterion of right and wrong was material success.” (Pg 70)

“The average European - whether democrat or communist, manual worker or intellectual- seemed to know only one positive faith: the worship of material progress, the belief that there could be no other goal in life than to make that very life continually easier or, as the current expression went, ‘independent of nature’.” (Pg. 70)