They would seek a cure for the falsehood of modern life in a return to Nature, a return to the self where truth ever is.

They would war with the privilege and ascendancy of the group over the individual conscience.

Already the exploiting class, as it neared the term of its depleted life, was but a mass of purulence.
Society was rotten, the state a pious criminal, the old truths tawdry lies.

Everywhere the impotence of senility--except in young America.

We faced the imminence of a vast breaking-up.