Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.