History Is The Interpretation Of The Significance

William James Once Said: "progress Is A Terrible Thing." It Is More Than That: It Is Also A Highly Ambiguous Notion. For Who Knowsbut That A Little Further On The Way A Bridge May Not Have Collapsed Or A Crevice Split The Earth?

We Have To Transpose Ourselves Into This Impressionability Of Mind, Into This Sensitivity To Tears And Spiritual Repentance, Intothis Susceptibility, Before We Can Judge How Colorful And Intensive Life Was Then.

In Europe Art Has To A Large Degree Taken The Place Of Religion. In America It Seems Rather To Be Science.

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

Barbarisation May Be Defined As A Cultural Process Whereby An Attained Condition Of High Value Is Gradually Overrun And Supersededby Elements Of Lower Quality.