In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.