Culture means control over nature.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.