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By the sixth century B.C., this development had led
to the partial dissolution of the old ways of life, and even
to a series of political revolutions and reactions. And it
had led not only to attempts to retain and to arrest
tribalism by force, as in Sparta, but also to that great
spiritual revolution, the invention of critical discussion,
and in consequence of thought that was free from
magical obsessions. At the same time we find the first
symptoms of a new uneasiness. The strain of civilization
was beginning to be felt .
This strain, this uneasiness, is a consequence of the
breakdown of the closed society. It is still felt even in our
day, especially in times of social change. It is the strain
created by the effort which life in an open and partially
abstract society continually demands from us—by the