The world today is passing through a grave crisis — the crisis of civilization itself. It is a moral and spiritual crisis before it is a crisis of food and raw materials or a crisis of government. It is the crisis of a limp soul that has lost confidence in itself, and has come to doubt all the spiritual values on which civilization rests. People today, in the whole world and not in Lebanon alone, doubt the value of justice and goodness, the value of morals and religion, the value of the school and the laboratory; and worse than all this, they doubt themselves — the most precious gift God has given: human life. And the good people of the earth are asleep — and not in Lebanon only. Human concepts and their standards have been turned upside down. Justice is degraded, and in its name crimes are committed; virtue is scorned, and in its name vices are com-mitted; tyranny is magnified, bodily strength is sanctified, commercial monopoly is counted genius and opportunism intelligence. As for justice — true justice, which is one of the attributes of God — as for meekness, as for goodness, as for piety, as for modesty of mind — all these are marks of weakness and folly, and whoever holds to them is a simple-minded beggar! And since when have nations stood upon delu-sions and been built upon myths?

We are in a world torn between an old world and a new; it is perplexed, anxious, divided — its feeling pulls it one way and its mind pulls it another. And the strange thing about it is that it accepts this divi-sion: you see people living with two minds and two hearts and in two worlds, and nothing disturbs them; then they imagine they have rec-onciled two incompatibles, when in fact they have come out with a civ-ilization deformed of face and with-out color — neither Western in its spirit nor Eastern in its appearance.

And we look forward to a genera-

tion marked with its own distinctive stamp — a generation of people who have found their personality; and in our Lebanese Eastern her-itage, and in the beneficent human civilization in whose train we travel, there is spiritual nourishment enough to guarantee the creation of this new Arab personality.

And in this world the buried forces

of repression and deprivation are at work, and the people have become prey to surging, dangerous feelings; you find grumbling on every tongue and every face. And it is neither fair, nor possible, to forbid people to grumble so long as on one side of society there is arrogant wealth and on the other grumbling poverty! This growing, accumulating discon-tent is among the gravest dangers to the life of the nation, for it not only fills the hearts of the poor

and the criminal with rancor and hatred, but it stirs every citizen who has a heart and a conscience, however much he may enjoy an easy life. And you will find a cor-rupt economic order — and in the

Dandruff... a Danger Signal! (Silvikrin)

Dandruff... a danger signal!

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