Philosophy Is Harmonized Knowledge Making A Harmonious

Does History Warrant The Conclusion That Religion Is Necessary To Morality - That A Natural Ethic Is Too Weak To Withstand The Savagery That Lurks Under Civilization And Emerges In Our Dreams, Crimes And Wars? ... There Is No Significant Example In History, Before Our Time, Of A Society Successfully Maintaining Moral Life Without The Aid Of Religion.

Every Vice Was Once A Virtue, And May Become Respectable Again, Just As Hatred Becomes Respectable In Wartime.

Our Knowledge Is A Receding Mirage In An Expanding Desert Of Ignorance.

Destroy It. There May Be A Redistribution Of The Land, But The Natural Inequality Of Men Soon Re-creates An Inequality Of Possessions And Privileges, And Raises To Power A New Minority With Essentially The Same Instincts As The Old.

Which Is Now A More Hopeful Statement Than Swift Intended It To Be.