English Translation

67.) the state in civil wars, in which all modern civil liberties are threatened. Such a time is the present, in which all the traditions are thrown aside in this way, without any recklessness, where there are no generally accepted, solid and consistent philosophical, religious, moral and legal concepts in which the political and social regimes are eliminated without reckless of contracts or loyal negotiating methods and in which new regimes are created in hard and often bloody social and political quagmires - such times, as we know, are times of moral and ideal crisis and chaos, times of social upheavals and revolutions, however, that is nothing new. In the history of humanity, times of universal philosophy and morality are fairly regular, with times of exclusive, selfish national and state philosophy under the preeminence of a people, party or class. From the flourishing of Egyptian and Jewish civilization and culture to classical civilization to the blossoming of Christianity, from medieval Catholic universalism to humanism and renaissance at the time of feudalism and monarchist absolutism, from "clarification" to the French revolution to reaction after and to the period of constitutionalism and liberalism in the 1 9th century with the first socialist experiments in Europe, from the World War of 19l4 and the temporary victory of the