If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.
Johan HuizingaLife is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
Johan HuizingaDo you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
Johan HuizingaMost thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.
Johan Huizinga