It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.