30. But apart from those facts, we are also continually reminded in other ways of the complete breakdown of the basis for religious perception which has been applicable up to now, in that mankind, as with one great thousand-voiced shout, is now crying towards the Unknown, in the form of outbursts such as the following: "How should I understand the concept of "God"? – What is good and what is evil? – Is the idea of prayer of any importance? – How am I to believe in a loving God when I find myself mutilated in the horrors of war? – How am I to understand His justice when I see one child born in a rich man's radiant palace in which it will be surrounded by luxury with all its wishes fulfilled which are dependent on money, whereas another child is born of poor and ill parents into a world where it begins to suffer from earliest childhood and is dressed poorly in patched-up rags or in the rich child's cast-off clothing; or when I see how one child is born to good and loving parents who provide it with a profusion of conditions where it can become a good and happy person, enabled to be kind and helpful to those around it; and yet another child is born of parents who do not seem to have met love to any degree which makes it possible for them to understand that love actually exists at all, and therefore they are more or less at odds with their surroundings, indeed, are sometimes in a state of near hatred towards the community? I can only see that the little being who has such parents will find itself in a profusion of conditions encouraging it to offend against the laws of the community, and in addition its consequent destiny will be to be trampled down by those around it. Nor do I understand His justice when I see that one child is born with outstanding abilities and talents, developing into genius, while another child has an inborn longing to become exactly the same as the first child but, in spite of all its diligence and striving, apparently reaches only a slight fraction of those abilities. Nor do I rightly grasp His way of being or His love when it is brought to my knowledge that many human beings, apparently quite innocent, have violent pain and suffering inflicted on them by their surroundings. Yes, sometimes it really seems that I find myself in an ocean of injustice". And so the questions continue. The world is full of these sighs of complaint, which, gathered together, can be seen as constituting one great shout or cry for more knowledge - one great testimony to the general breakdown in the power of the old religious concepts to inspire, and all of it constituting a strongly developed hunger within the individual's own present and future sense of justice for a divine and satisfactory explanation of daily life's seemingly unjust mysteries and phenomena - an eloquent proof of a "Doomsday", or, in other words, the decline of a world civilization.