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PART I. Disillusionment With Respect to

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DISILLUSIONMENT WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF CREEPS UPON TWENTIETH-CENTURY MAN

II Our Belief in Man Yesterday and Today 7 III What the War Did to Our Belief in Man 12 IV Has the Theory of Evolution Degraded Us in Our Own Eyes? 21 V The Irrationality of Man as a Literary Motif 27 VI Has Psychology Undermined Our Self-Respect? 36 VII According to Industrialism, “What Is Man?” 47 VIII The Dilemma of Christianity 56

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