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.

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.