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To the ''soul that lacks a sense of direction'', life … […]

Not only can we not live in a world devoid of meaning, we … […] one of the gravest afflictions of the Great War, both in the hinterland and in the trenches, was ''boredom'' – the boredom of a world without meaning.

Posterity, when news of this tedium reaches it, 

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3. There was no escape from such a world. […]

The conscience of the ''governing circles'' could never be secure, for during … […]

{{Page |n°=69}} During the time of the ''Burgfriede'' …

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The ''peasant'' was …

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4. Such was our epoch, this generation ''our generation''.<br />
[…] What we perceived was not who was to blame, but that we all were. If mankind could have cast this revelation into an institution, the United State of the World would have been born in a single day. But all this merely appeared to the souls in flashes, as the fleeting recognition of a single moment. 

== Text Informations ==
'''Reference:'''<br />
'''Original Publication''': “[[A mai nemzedék hitvatása]]”, ''[[Szabadgondolat]]'', (June)<ref>…“published in June [[1918]].” <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Secondary_Literature_about_Karl_Polanyi#Litvan1990|Litván 1990]], 32]</ref>  8.4, [[1918]], p. 37-46<br />
'''KPA''': [[01/26]] (34 p., 2 typed versions in English) + [[01/42]] (40 p., 3 versions, copies of the original and a tipped, in Hungarian)<br />
'''Recent Publication in English''': in [[POLANYI 2016]], p. 64-73.<br />
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