If we struggle against this greatest of all dangers as good Europeans with the sort of courage that does not fear even an infinite struggle, then out of the destructive blaze of lack of faith, the smoldering fire of despair over the West's mission for humanity, the ashes of great weariness, will rise up the phoenix of a new life inwardness and spiritualization as the pledge of a great and distant future for man: for the spirit alone is immortal.