I: End of romanticism -- II: Phoney theorizings of western cynics -- Myths about individuality and the mass society -- Our humanizing machine age -- Privacy--a modern privilege -- Identity is obsolete -- Alienation--a modern myth in our age of integration -- Myths about estrangement from nature -- The trend toward non-violence -- Breakthroughs in human nature -- III: The young universalists -- Ego on the move -- The new international economics -- Regionalism, continentalism, and internationalism -- Mankind converging -- Universalizing technology -- IV: Optimism--the new revolution -- Toward new ideologies.