We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

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

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other