Sentence:  The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America , but it is the consciousness that <WSD>most</WSD> `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not strictly practical ends of culture . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number