63. Among the symptoms of this new world impulse one can mention those powers reflected in new architecture, modern music and art. Here one must take into consideration that these realities are still only in the first feeble embryonic stages and one day, when they reach their culmination and become "classic", they will far outshine all hitherto existing forms of music and art.
      Furthermore the new world impulse is also expressing itself in this century's strongly rising development of intelligence which is concentrated in what we call "science". This is another dawning result of that impulse and is already such a strong factor that without it mankind would not be able to lift itself out of the old primitive notions and prejudices with which its present world concepts are bound up. Science has thus been one of the main factors of assistance in enabling the new world impulse to reach the dawning of its first entrance into the zone of the Earth.
      But the new world impulse also has symptoms of an unpleasant kind. These are reflected in the great political movements and revolutions of later times, along with sexual abnormalities, unhappy marriages and mental illness, a great many of which realities would be classified as reactions which necessarily arise when the new world impulse clashes with the old concepts or ideas about life. As already mentioned in Livets Bog these reactions have been called the birth-pangs before the birth of the new world impulse.