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There is little more than a decade left before the bells all over the world will be ringing in the first hour of the twenty-first century, which will surely be an era of highly advanced technology. Looking back on the century that we live in, one can realize that generations of people who have already lived in it for the better parts of their lives have begun to ask the same question that also every individual person thinks about when he is faced with the first signs of the end of his life. It is the question: "Why did everything in my life happen the way it did?" Or, "It would have been so easy to have channelled events into directions other than the way they went," Or, "Why, in all the world, is my life coming to an end as it does, or, why must all of us face this kind of end of our century?"

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3637-9_1

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