Politics has become out-and-out Machiavellian and this state of affairs has greatly impaired the poise and tranquility of inter national life. That is why, in the words of a philosopher, although the modern man has “learned to fly in the skies like the birds and to swim in the oceans like the fishes, but has failed to learn to live on earth like human beings”. That is why the renowned historian Arnold Toynbee even doubts the value of secularism as an ideal.
