Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.