" for everything that has any
kind of existence, even error, has necessarily its reason for existence,
and disorder itself must in the end find its place among the elements
of universal order. Thus, whereas the modern world considered in
itself is an anomaly and even a sort of monstrosity, it is no less true
that, when viewed in relation to the whole historical cycle of which
it is a part, it corresponds exactly to the conditions pertaining to a
certain phase of that cycle, the phase that the Hindu tradition speci-
fies as the final period of the Kali-Yuga. It is these conditions, arising "

― René Guénon , The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times