The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Most 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.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphsof psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

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

It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

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