Culture Means Control Over Nature.

A New Culture Can Only Grow Up In The Soil Of A Purged Humanity.

Most Thoughtful Americans Of Today Seem To Have Forgotten How Strongly Their Own And Immediate Predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne And Whitman, Were Still Preoccupied With The Essence Behind Things.

There Are No Instances Known To Me Of Cultures Having Forsaken Truth Or Renounced The Understanding In Its Widest Sense.

The Spirit Of Playful Competition Is, As A Social Impulse, Older Than Culture Itself And Pervades All Life Like A Veritable Ferment. Ritual Grew Up In Sacred Play; Poetry Was Born In Play And Nourished On Play; Music And Dancing Were Pure Play....we Have To Conclude, Therefore, That Civilization Is, In Its Earliest Phases, Played. It Does Not Come From Play...it Arises In And As Play, And Never Leaves It.

The Title Of Hero Is Bestowed By The Survivors Upon The Fallen, Who Themselves Know Nothing Of Heroism.