Formerly, A Public Man Needed A Private

Each Living Art Object, Taken Out Of Its Native Habitat So We Can Conveniently Gaze At It, Is Like An Animal In A Zoo. Something About It Has Died In The Removal.

History Had Been Man's Effort To Accomodate Himself To What He Could Not Do. Amereican History In The 20th Century Would, More Than Ever Before, Test Man's Ability To Accomodate Himself To All The New Things He Could Do.

In America, Communities Existed Before Governments. There Were Many Groups Of People With A Common Sense Of Purpose And A Feeling Of Duty To One Another Before There Were Political Institutions.

The Greatest Obstacle To Discovery Is Not Ignorance - It Is The Illusion Of Knowledge.

The Most Important Lesson Of American History Is The Promise Of The Unexpected. None Of Our Ancestors Would Have Imagined Settling Way Over Here On This Unknown Continent. So We Must Continue To Have Society That Is Hospitable To The Unexpected, Which Allows Possibilities To Develop Beyond Our Own Imaginings.