Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.