Surely The Glory Of Journalism Is Its

One Of The Peculiar Sins Of The Twentieth Century Which We've Developed To A Very High Level Is The Sin Of Credulity. It Has Been Said That When Human Beings Stop Believing In God They Believe In Nothing. The Truth Is Much Worse: They Believe In Anything.

The Hallmark Of Religion Is To Distrust Claims Made For Mortal Men. It Is In Ages Of Great Religious Faith That Great Skepticism Can Find Expression.

I Suppose That Every Age Has Its Own Particular Fantasy: Ours Is Science. A Seventeenth-century Man Like Blaise Pascal, Who Thought Himself A Mathematician And Scientist Of Genius, Found It Quite Ridiculous That Anyone Should Suppose That Rational Processes Could Lead To Any Ultimate Conclusions About Life, But Easily Accepted The Authority Of The Scriptures. With Us, It Is The Other Way `round

Humor Is Practically The Only Thing About Which The English Are Utterly Serious.

I Have A Very Great Respect For Americans, And Having Been A Correspondent In This Country, And I Believe That Americans Are People Who Respond Much Better To Facts And Truthful, Genuine Speculation, Than They Do To Purely, Kind Of Phoney, Adulation.