The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

The moment that the state came into conflict with the higher power, the moment that it set itself up as an end in itself, it became identified with Augustine's earthly city and lost all claims to a higher sanction than the law of force and self-interest. Without justice, what is a great kingdom but a great robbery, magnum latrocinium?

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.