The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.