It is clear from this sampling of Steffen’s work that he was writing for our times. Included in this collection are provoking essays on To Create out of Nothing; The Problem of Evil; and Present-Day Tasks for Humanity. This comprehensive selection of Steffen’s work also contains poems, excerpts from novels and dramas, as well as tributes from Rudolf Steiner, Marie Steiner, Hermann Hesse, Bruno Walter, and Percy MacKaye.

“There is no moral narrowness, no sitting in judgment, no lack of understanding in the poet’s view. Life is to him not a mere spectacle of nature, but rather eternal doing, struggling and suffering of that highest faculty of love in the conquest and meaningfulness of which he believes.”
— Hermann Hesse