 He thought that contemporary western Europe had "rejected the single formula for their salvation that came from God and was proclaimed through revelation, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself', and replaced it with practical conclusions such as, "Chacun pour soi et Dieu pour tous" [Every man for himself and God for all], or "scientific" slogans like 'the struggle for survival.He considered this crisis to be the consequence of the collision between communal and individual interests, brought about by a decline in religious and moral principles.Dostoevsky distinguished three "enormous world ideas" prevalent in his time