It Is Only A Short Step From

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.

Until Now When We Have Started To Talk About The Uniqueness Of America We Have Almost Always Ended By Comparing Ourselves To Europe. Toward Her We Have Felt All The Attraction And Repulsions Of Oedipus

It Is Only A Short Step From Exaggerating What We Can Find In The World To Exaggerating Our Power To Remake The World. Expecting More Novelty Than There Is, More Greatness Than There Is, And More Strangeness Than There Is, We Imagine Ourselves Masters Of A Plastic Universe. But A World We Can Shape To Our Will Is A Shapeless World.

A Best-seller Was A Book Which Somehow Sold Well Because It Was Selling Well.

What Is More Natural In A Democratic Age Than That We Should Begin To Measure The Stature Of A Work Of Art-especially Of A Painting-by How Widely And How Well It Is Reproduced?