In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

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

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

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

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.

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

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.