Culture Means Control Over Nature.

The Modern City Hardly Knows A Pure Darkness Or True Silence Anymore, Nor Does It Know The Effect Of A Single Small Light Or That Of A Lonely Distant Shout.

You Only Live A Short Time... And You Are Dead A Long Time.

He Who Wishes To Maintain That The Past Of Mankind No Longer Has Any Absolute Value In Lifemust Also Be Ready To Deny His Ownlife Until The Present Moment, Indeed In Advance Until The Last Moment, As Worthless. He Who Realizes That Culture Is The Giving Of Form Will Also See That The Highest Forms That It Is Given To The Human Spirit To Recognize Have Always Been, Psychologically Considered, Such Evasions From The Present. Considerations Such As These Do Not At All Square With The Direction Of America's Mind.

Quite Apart From Any Conscious Program, The Great Cultural Historians Have Always Been Historical Morphologists: Seekers After Theforms Of Life, Thought, Custom, Knowledge, Art.

Culture Requires In The First Place A Certain Balance Of Material And Spiritual Values.