Sri Aurobindo's, The Life Divine: Part 6 - On Human Progress with The Mother's Commentaries
"Humanity has reached a certain state of general tensiontension in effort, in action, even in daily lifewith such an excessive hyperactivity, so widespread a trepidation, that mankind as a whole seems to have come to a point where it must either break through the resistance and emerge into a new consciousness or else fall back into an abyss of darkness and inertia." - The Mother