Ages Of Faith And Of Unbelief Are

To Rejoice In Life, To Find The World Beautiful And Delightful To Live In, Was A Mark Of The Greek Spirit Which Distinguished It From All That Had Gone Before. It Is A Vital Distinction.

Reality Has Actually Very Little To Do With Truth; There Is No Necessary Connection Between The Two.

Old Ideas Are Continually Being Slain By New Facts. There Is Nothing Stable In The Conclusions Of The Mind, And It Is Impossible That There Ever Should Be Unless We Hold That The Universe Is Made To The Measure Of The Human Mind, An Assumption For Which Nothing In The Past Gives Any Warrant.

Theories That Go Counter To The Facts Of Human Nature Are Foredoomed.

In Every Civilization, Life Grows Easier. Men Grow Lazier In Consequence. We Have A Picture Of What Happened To The Individual Greek. (i Cannot Look At History, Or At Any Human Action, Except As I Look At The Individual.) The Greeks Had Good Food, Good Witty Talk, Pleasant Dinner Parties; And They Were Content. When The Individual Man Had Reached That Condition In Athens, When The Thought Not Of Giving To The State But Of What The State Could Give To Him, Athens' Freedom Was Doomed.