Just a few parts taken out.... In the West,
Politics, which were once based upon morals and spiritual ideals, have now commercialism as their central theme. Alliance between nations exists for the interest of each; therefore those who are friends in one situation turn enemies on another occasion. For there is no moral ideal to hold humanity together in a bond, except the treaties made for the protection of their own interest. And the East to the West politically is like a milk-cow to the husbandman, a point of view which is supported by Darwin's theory that the world is the survival of the fittest.
As many courts there are, so many more lawyers and as many prisons are made, so many more criminals, ready to occupy them. A time has come when the word of man has much less value than a six-penny stamp. Divorce is getting easier, if not by law, without law. Marriage is becoming a private business affair. A love affair today is considered less than a friendship, for man loves with his head, rather than with his heart. And the cause of all this degeneration is the absence of the spiritual ideal which keeps hearts shallow and souls in obscurity.
At the present time the world is becoming very commercial even to such an extent that, absorbed in commercialism, it overlooks the sense of beauty. In other words the sense of beauty is being sacrificed to commercialism. But at the same time in commercialism there is no purpose of life accomplished. That which accomplishes the purpose of the soul is in its wakening to beauty in all aspects.
Man in the East is satisfied with the subjective. The great quality that a man from the West shows, is that he tries to bring all he can from the subjective to the objective. It is in this that he surpasses the Eastern mentality and proves his success in his inventive genius.
In order to unite the people in the West, you must raise a common enemy. In order to unite people in the East, you must have a prophet come.
There is more and it's a great read... Read up on his experience in Rome and of the reporters in the West...
In the end he finds there are good people all around despite the direction of the collective...
http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Journal_3.htm
