History Is The Interpretation Of The Significance

Whether The Aim Is In Heaven Or On Earth, Wisdom Or Wealth, The Essential Condition Of Its Pursuit And Attainment Is Always Security And Order.

The New Knowledge Has Not Yet Settled In Culture. It Has Not Yet Been Integrated In A New Cosmic Conception.

Most Thoughtful Americans Of Today Seem To Have Forgotten How Strongly Their Own And Immediate Predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne And Whitman, Were Still Preoccupied With The Essence Behind Things.

History, As The Study Of The Past, Makes The Coherence Of What Happened Comprehensible By Reducing Events To A Dramatic Pattern And Seeming Them In A Simple Form.

You Only Live A Short Time... And You Are Dead A Long Time.