No Character Is Ultimately Tested Until It

Democracy Is Based Upon The Conviction That There Are Extraordinary Possibilities In Ordinary People.

I Hate War... For The Dictatorships It Puts In The Place Of Democracies, And For The Starvation That Stalks After It.

...while Science Gives Us Implements To Use, Science Alone Does Not Determine For What Ends They Will Be Employed. Radio Is An Amazing Invention. Yet Now That It Is Here, One Suspects That Hitler Never Could Have Consolidated His Totalitarian Control Over Germany Without Its Use. One Never Can Tell What Hands Will Reach Out To Lay Hold On Scientific Gifts, Or To What Employment They Will Be Put. Ever The Old Barbarian Emerges, Destructively Using The New Civilization.

We Ask The Leaf, "are You Complete In Yourself?" And The Leaf Answers, "no, My Life Is In The Branches." We Ask The Branch, And The Branch Answers, "no My Life Is In The Root." We Ask The Root, And It Answers, "no My Life Is In The Trunk And The Branches And The Leaves. Keep The Branches Stripped Of Leaves, And I Shall Die," So It Is With The Great Tree Of Being. Nothing Is Completely And Merely Individual.

The Fact That Astronomies Change While The Stars Abide Is A True Analogy Of Every Realm Of Human Life And Thought, Religion Not Least Of All. No Existent Theology Can Be A Final Formulation Of Spiritual Truth.