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He Was The Mightiest Of Puritans No Less Than Of Philistines Who First Insisted That Beauty Is Only Skin Deep.

From The Failure Of The Humanist Tradition To Participate Fully Or To Act Decisively, Civilizations May Perhaps Crumble Or Perish At The Hands Of Barbarians. But Unless The Humanist Tradition Itself In Some Form Survives, There Can Really Be No Civilization At All.

Along With Being Forever On The Move, One Is Forever In A Hurry, Leaving Things Inadvertently Behind-friend Or Fishing Tackle, Old Raincoat Or Old Allegiance.

In The History Of Thought And Culture The Dark Nights Have Perhaps In Some Ways Cost Mankind Less Grief Than The False Dawns, The Prison Houses In Which Hope Persists Less Grief Than The Promised Lands Where Hope Expires.

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