Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.