Man Can Know His World Without Falling

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.

It Is Impossible For Us To Understand The Church If We Regard Her As Subject To The Limitations Of Human Culture. For She Is Essentially A Supernatural Organism Which Transcends Human Cultures And Transforms Them To Her Own Ends.

Reason Lives On The Systematization Of The Past, But Faith Is The Promise Of The Future.

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.

Every Society Rests In The Last Resort On The Recognition Of Common Principles And Common Ideals, And If It Makes No Moral Or Spiritual Appeal To The Loyalty Of Its Members, It Must Inevitably Fall To Pieces.