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“It is a characteristic of any decaying civilisation that the great masses of the people are unaware of the tragedy.
“Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives.
“Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because they have no standard outside of themselves by which to measure their times. If there is no fixed concept of justice, how shall men know it is violated?
“Only those who live by faith really know what is happening in the world; the great masses without faith are unconscious of the destructive processes going on because they have lost the vision of the heights from which they have fallen.”
The Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
