Nothing Is New Except Arrangement.

Progress Is The Increasing Control Of The Environment By Life.

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.

As To Harmonizing The Theory Of Evolution With The Biblical Account Of Creation, I Do Not Believe It Can Be Done, And I Do Not See Why It Should Be. The Story Of Genesis Is Beautiful, And Profoundly Significant As Symbolism: There Is No Good Reason To Torture It Into Conformity With Modern Theory.

A Great Civilization Is Not Conquered From Without, Until It Has Destroyed Itself From Within. The Essential Causes Of Rome's Decline Lay In Her People, Her Morals, Her Class Struggle, Her Failing Trade, Her Bureaucratic Despotism, Her Stifling Taxes, Her Consuming Wars.

The Trouble With Most People Is That They Think With Their Hopes Or Fears Or Wishes Rather Than With Their Minds.