Introduction: Fear.--The search for beauty: George Santayana.--A return to nature: Gerhart Hauptmann.--The eternal adolescent: Andrعe Gide.--Futility in masquerade: Luigi Pirandello.--The waters under the earth: Marcel Proust.--The new tragedy: Eugene O'Neill.--The conscience of India: Rabindranath Tagore.--Sight to the blind: Aldous Huxley.--Go to the ant: Jules Romains.--The idol of the tribe: Mein kampf.--The Marxian formula: Mikhail Sholokov.--Faith of our fathers: T. S. Eliot.--The promise and blessing: Thomas Mann.--Till hope creates: Conclusion.--A suggested bibliography )p. 733-843(