It May Well Be That A Societys

Fathers And Mothers Have Lost The Idea That The Highest Aspiration They Might Have For Their Children Is For Them To Be Wise... Specialized Competence And Success Are All That They Can Imagine.

There Is No Real Teacher Who In Practise Does Not Believe In The Existence Of The Soul, Or In A Magic That Acts On It Through Speech.

The De-eroticization Of The World, A Companion To Its Disenchantment ... Seems To Result From A Combination Of Causes Our Democratic Regime And Its Tendencies Toward Leveling And Self-protection, A Reductionist-materialist Science That Inevitably Interprets Eros As Sex, And The Atmosphere Generated By "the Death Of God" And Of The Subordinate God, Eros.

As Western Nations Became More Prosperous, Leisure, Which Had Been Put Off For Several Centuries In Favor Of The Pursuit Of Property, The Means To Leisure, Finally Began To Be Of Primary Concern. But, In The Meantime, Any Notion Of The Serious Life Of Leisure, As Well As Men's Taste And Capacity To Live It, Had Disappeared.

The Self Is The Modern Substitute For The Soul.