Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.