The Greatest Obstacle To International Understanding Is

Faith Transcends Reason Because Divine Truth Is Not Only Higher, But Also Wider Than The Human Mind, And The Rationalist In His Haste For Premature Simplification Always Tends To Shut His Eyes To One Aspect Of The Truth And To Seek A False Harmony Of Thought By The Sacrifice Of An Essential Element Of Reality.

The Present Age Has Seen A Great Slump In Humanist Values.

If Man Attempts To Suppress The Animal Side Of His Nature By A Sheer Effort Of Conscious Will, Nature Finds A Hundred Unexpected And Unpleasant Ways To Take Its Revenge.

American Literature Has Never Been Content To Be Just One Among The Many Literatures Of The Western World. It Has Always Aspired To Be The Literature Not Only Of A New Continent But Of A New World.

The Sublimated Idealism Of The Enlightenment, The Spirit Of The League Of Nations And Of The United Nations Charter Have Not Proved Strong Enough To Control The Aggressive Dynamism Of Nationalism.