The Robe Of Flesh Wears Thin, And

An Atheist Is A Man Who Has No Invisible Means Of Support.

In Our Modern World We Have Seen Inaugurated The Reign Of A Dull Bourgeois Rationalism, Which Finds Some Inadequate Reason For All Things In Heaven And Earth And Makes A God Of Its Own Infallibility.

Any Large-scale Organization Must Lose Some Of The Merits Of Its Rudimentary Beginnings. Quantity Will Have A Coarsening Effect On Quality.

The World Was Arrogant And Self-satisfied, But Behind All This Confidence There Was An Uneasy Sense Of Impending Disaster. The Old Creeds, Both Religious And Political, Were Largely In The Process Of Dissolution, But We Did Not Realise The Fact, And Therefore Did Not Look For New Foundations.

It Was Foreordained That I Should Go Alone To Umvelos', And In The Promptings Of My Own Infallible Heart I Believed I Saw The Workings Of Omnipotence. Such Is Our Moral Arrogance, And Yet Without Such A Belief I Think That Mankind Would Have Ever Been Content To Bide Sluggishly At Home.