This is a book of social assessment that deals with Lebanese and Eastern afflictions during the early 20th century, such as injustice, ignorance, passivity, fear, oppression, and sectarianism. Rihani calls for equality, solidarity, and progress. His ideas for reform seek to combine "natural evolution" with "social development" and "moral progress." He also calls for an intellectual revolution against corruption as one way of reforming the nation and saving the East. For Rihani, education is the cornerstone of intellectual achievement.
Written between 1925 and 1927.
49 pages, soft cover.
Published in 1997.