The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.