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.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

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

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

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.

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

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