"The scientific order"

“In a Christian civilization the scientific order would no longer offer, as it does at present, the tragic spectacle of vast resources of power and intelligence devoted to producing unsightly and unnecessary objects and to endowing mankind with the new means of self-destruction; it would become an instrument for the realization of man’s true destiny as the orderer of material things to spiritual ends. And so, too, with regard to the international aspects of our civilization. Without spiritual order the cosmopolitan of modern culture does not make for peace; it merely increases the opportunities of strife. It destroys all that is best and most distinctive in the local and national cultures, while leaving the instincts of national and racial hostility to develop unchecked. It unites mankind in the common enjoyment of the cinema and the Ford car and the machine gun without creating any spiritual unity. The recovery of the Christian idea of order would give a spiritual expression to the universality of modern culture. It’s material unification would become subservient to the ideal of the spiritual unity of mankind in justice and charity, an ideal that has a very real attraction for the modern mind, but which secular idealism is powerless to achieve.” 

~Christopher Dawson: Christianity and the New Age, Chap. IV.

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