It Is Christian Culture That Has Created

For Humanism Also Appeals To Man As Man. It Seeks To Liberate The Universal Qualities Of Human Nature From The Narrow Limitations Of Blood And Soil And Class And To Create A Common Language And A Common Culture In Which Men Can Realize Their Common Humanity.

We Have Entered A New Phase Of Culture - We May Call It The Age Of The Cinema - In Which The Most Amazing Perfection Of Scientific Technique Is Being Devoted To Purely Ephemeral Objects, Without Any Consideration Of Their Ultimate Justification. It Seems As Though A New Society Was Arising Which Will Acknowledge No Hierarchy Of Values, No Intellectual Authority, And No Social Or Religious Tradition, But Which Will Live For The Moment In A Chaos Of Pure Sensation.

Every Great Movement In The History Of Western Civilization From The Carolingian Age To The Nineteenth Century Has Been An International Movement Which Owed Its Existence And Its Development To The Cooperation Of Many Different Peoples.

American Literature Has Never Been Content To Be Just One Among The Many Literatures Of The Western World. It Has Always Aspired To Be The Literature Not Only Of A New Continent But Of A New World.

Faith Transcends Reason Because Divine Truth Is Not Only Higher, But Also Wider Than The Human Mind, And The Rationalist In His Haste For Premature Simplification Always Tends To Shut His Eyes To One Aspect Of The Truth And To Seek A False Harmony Of Thought By The Sacrifice Of An Essential Element Of Reality.