It Is Impossible For Us To Understand

Unlike Other Peoples The United States Found Their Origin In A Deliberate Act Of Corporate Self-assertion, And Ever Since The Revolution Every Little American Has Been Taught To Associate Himself Personally With This Creative Act.

Faith Transcends Reason Because Divine Truth Is Not Only Higher, But Also Wider Than The Human Mind, And The Rationalist In His Haste For Premature Simplification Always Tends To Shut His Eyes To One Aspect Of The Truth And To Seek A False Harmony Of Thought By The Sacrifice Of An Essential Element Of Reality.

The Modern Dilemma Is Essentially A Spiritual One, And Every One Of Its Main Aspects, Moral, Political And Scientific, Brings Us Back To The Need Of A Religious Solution.

American Literature Has Never Been Content To Be Just One Among The Many Literatures Of The Western World. It Has Always Aspired To Be The Literature Not Only Of A New Continent But Of A New World.

Man Is A Means And Not An End, And He Is A Means To Economic Or Political Ends Which Are Not Really Ends In Themselves But Means To Other Ends Which In Their Turn Are Means And So Ad Infinitum