exchange for an authoritarian government who will provide the relative values. He further warns that this government will not be obvious like the fascist regimes of the 20th century but will be based on manipulation and subtle forms of information control, psychology, and genetics. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Ancient Rome - The finite Graeco-Roman gods were not a sufficient inward base for the Roman society: Rome crumbled from within, and the invasions of the barbarians only completed the breakdown. Chapter 2: The Middle Ages - Had many positive elements of a Christian society, but allowed humanistic concepts to begin to blend with the earlier Bible based Christianity. These elements would begin to polarize in the Renaissance. Chapter 3: The Renaissance - The rebirth of classical thought. The humanistic ideal, man beginning only from himself, becomes dominant and will continue to grow to its logical conclusion through the further periods. Chapter 4: The Reformation - The philosophic reasons the reformers wanted to break away from the Church of Rome. The reformers attitudes toward art and culture. Chapter 5: The Reformation – Continued - The effects the Reformation had on society, affecting thinkers who even themselves may not have been Christian by the traditional definition. Chapter 6: The Enlightenment - How optimism at human potential became divorced from religion. How the French Revolution showed the logical conclusion of this. Chapter 7: The Rise of Modern Science - Science's foundation came from confidence that God had created an orderly world that we could understand. Chapter 8: The Breakdown in Philosophy and Science - The shift from the concept of the uniformity in an open system to the concept of natural causes in a closed system begins the descent to despair and the conclusion that man is merely a machine. Chapter 9: Modern Philosophy and Modern Theology - Further steps down the line of despair. How the theologians follow the philosophers. Chapter 10: Modern Art, Music, Literature, and Films - Numerous examples of despair and alienation in modern productions. Chapter 11: Our Society - How the values of personal peace and affluence permeate our society. Chapter 12: Manipulation and the New Elite - How our society has opened itself up to the coming of an elite authoritarian state. Chapter 13: The Alternatives - Return to the Christian foundation of our society or face increasing economic breakdown, war, the chaos