To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.
Life is always at some turning point.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.