There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.