Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.