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Ethics Occupies A Central Place In Philosophy Because It Is Concerned With Sin, With The Origin Of Good And Evil And With Moral Valuations. And Since These Problems Have A Universal Significance, The Sphere Of Ethics Is Wider Than Is Generally Supposed. It Deals With Meaning And Value And Its Province Is The World In Which The Distinction Between Good And Evil Is Drawn, Evaluations Are Made And Meaning Is Sought.

We Find The Most Terrible Form Of Atheism, Not In The Militant And Passionate Struggle Against The Idea Of God Himself, But In The Practical Atheism Of Everyday Living, In Indifference And Torpor. We Often Encounter These Forms Of Atheism Among Those Who Are Formally Christians.

The Meaning Of Conservatism Is Not That It Impedes Movement Forward And Upward, But That It Impedes Movement Backwards And Downwards—to Chaotic Darkness And The Return To A Primitive State.

It Is Beyond Dispute That The State Exercises Very Great Power Over Human Life And It Always Shows A Tendency To Go Beyond The Limits Laid Down For It.

In Creativity The Way Will Be Found For Subject To Pass Into Object, The Identity Of Subject With Object Will Be Restored. All The Great Creators Have Foreseen This Turning-point. Today, In The Depths Of Culture Itself And In All Its Separate Spheres, This Crisis Of Creativity Is Ripening.