Every time I read Forster he seems more relevant and more contemporary.  Just look at the first paragraph few sentences:<p>============<p>I do not believe in Belief. But this is an Age of Faith, and there
are so many militant creeds that, in self-defence, one has to
formulate a creed of one&#x27;s own. Tolerance, good temper and
sympathy are no longer enough in a world which is rent by
religious and racial persecution, in a world where ignorance rules,
and Science, who ought to have ruled, plays the subservient pimp.<p>============<p>Could have been written today. :-(