“At the time of my first arrival there in this Center-of-Culture of theirs, they were just preparing that which was afterwards the principal cause of the ACCELERATION of the rate of the degeneration of their ‘psychic-organization’, especially in the sense of the atrophy in them of the instinctive functioning of those three fundamental factors which ought to exist in the presence of every three-brained being — namely, those factors which give rise to the being-impulses existing under the names of ‘Faith’, ‘Hope’, and ‘Love’. 1926 XXIV

“Just this maleficent invention of the beings of this continent, which I now intend to explain to you, has not only been the cause of the ACCELERATION of the tempo of the still greater ‘dwindling’ of the psyche of all the three-brained beings breeding on that unfortunate planet of yours, but it was and still is the cause also that in the beings of all the other continents of recent times there is already completely destroyed that being-function which it is proper for all three-brained beings to have, and which was the one single function which even until the last century arose in their presence of its own accord namely, that being-function which is everywhere called the ‘sane instinct to believe in reality’. 5729 XLII