If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.