Packed in metal boxes and buried at night for safekeeping from the Nazis, who raided the author's study while he was working on it, Innerland was not openly critical of Hitler's regime; nevertheless it attacked the spirits that animated German society: its murderous strains of racism and bigotry, its heady nationalistic fervor, its mindless mass hysteria and its vulgar materialism. In this sense Innerland stands as starkly opposed to the Zeitgeist of our own day as to that of the author's. A wellspring of remarkable spiritual depth, Arnold's classic work invites readers to turn from the chaos of a society distracted by violence and greed to that 'innerland of the invisible, where our spirit can find the roots of its strength.' Only there, he argues, can our life be placed under the illuminating light of the eternal and seen for what it is. Only there will we find the clarity of vision we need to win the daily battle that is life.