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.

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

I am a rank individualist.

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.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.