The truth is that the writer anticipates the features of a completely new era. To this end, he not only addressed the political, economic, and psychological frameworks, as was his practice in previous books, but also sought to mobilize a number of philosophical concepts and scientific ideas, in an attempt to investigate the global issue in general, and the European issue in particular, from all its aspects. From this standpoint, Gustave Le Bon looked at the existing alliances critically, studied the structure of revolutions in a precise and comprehensive objective study, and discovered the change in the mentality of the rulers, not to mention his discussion of the devastation caused by the war on the material and intellectual levels, and ways to confront the devastation it left behind.
