Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

Education is the transformation of civilisation

As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.