The peoples of the earth are one family.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.