And it seems that the drunkenness of the world has increased and increased to such an extent that great bloodshed and disaster have come about recently [World War I], the like of which cannot be found in the history of the world. That shows that the drunkenness of the world has reached its summit. And no one can deny that even now the world is not in its sober condition. Even now the traces of that drunkenness can be found in the unrest of the time, even if the great bloodshed, for the moment, is over.