Every Superior Personality, And Every Superior Performance,

Cities Are, First Of All, Seats Of The Highest Economic Division Of Labor.

The First Internal Relation That Is Essential To A Secret Society Is The Reciprocal Confidence Of Its Members.

Gratitude, As It Were, Is The Moral Memory Of Mankind. In This Respect, It Differs From Faithfulness By Being More Practical And Impulsive: Although It May Remain, Of Course, Something Purely Internal, It May Yet Engender New Actions. It Is An Ideal Bridge Which The Soul Comes Across Again And Again, So To Speak, And Which, Upon Provocations Too Slight To Throw A New Bridge To The Other Person, It Uses To Come Closer To Him.

Modern Culture Is Constantly Growing More Objective. Its Tissues Grow More And More Out Of Impersonal Energies, And Absorb Less And Less The Subjective Entirety Of The Individual.

In The Latter Case Life Rests Upon A Thousand Presuppositions Which The Individual Can Never Trace Back To Their Origins, And Verify; But Which He Must Accept Upon Faith And Belief.