Knowledge That Does Not Generate Achievement Is

The Failure Of The Reformation To Capture France Had Left For Frenchmen No Half-way House Between Infallibility And Infidelity; And While The Intellect Of Germany And England Moved Leisurely In The Lines Of Religious Evolution, The Mind Of France Leaped From The Hot Faith Which Had Massacred The Huguenots To The Cold Hostility With Which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, And Diderot Turned Upon The Religion Of The Fathers.

We Americans Are The Best Informed People On Earth As To The Events Of The Last Twenty-four Hours; We Are The Not The Best Informed As The Events Of The Last Sixty Centuries.

Christianity Did Not Destroy Paganism; It Adopted It.

So I Should Say That Civilizations Begin With Religion And Stoicism: They End With Scepticism And Unbelief, And The Undisciplined Pursuit Of Individual Pleasure. A Civilization Is Born Stoic And Dies Epicurean.

Science Without Philosophy, Facts Without Perspective And Valuation, Cannot Save Us From Havoc And Despair. Science Gives Us Knowledge, But Only Philosophy Can Give Us Wisdom.