Written in 1927, one wonders what the author think of our society as it has only to fall into a more secular paradigm ... For only 200 pages, this little essay is incredibly explosive as the evolution of our society only reinforces the thesis of Rene Guenon ... It is indeed a reading, another vision of the world on which we are invited to think: What if the so-called modernity would not be made a decadence? And if the paradigm of reason would not actually that lowering? And if materialism is not obscurantism? To each his thinking and his personal reading, however, no doubt that we can escape from this reading without opening our minds to another world view ....