As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.