The irreversible process of disintegration in the area of morality demonstrates the complete obsolescence of this institution. In the period when agriculture dominated it was still viable as an ago-economic institution, but from the moment of total severance from the soil it is as alien to man in the new period as it was to primitive man. The only good quality it retains is the social assurance of financial responsibility for each child . The individual's human protest against meaningless pressure chat restricts and distorts the individual, can no longer be suppressed without increasing the stress of internal conflict. The dissonance between a new inwardness and the increasingly baseless tradition will become ever greater.
Morality always tends to burden private life, at times even to encroach on it.
A misreading of the signs of the time ties at the base of both immorality and morality. Thus, this stage of our development, through which we have to go, is set. It is the same stage which has brought crisis and catastrophe to every culture. This alone is the true social and ethical question, the first and most pressing question for society. Thereby, the law will be realized according to which all significant reforms are recurrences of initial forms on a. higher level and order.