The Eternal Gulf Between Being And Idea

History, As The Study Of The Past, Makes The Coherence Of What Happened Comprehensible By Reducing Events To A Dramatic Pattern And Seeming Them In A Simple Form.

The Awareness Of The All-surpassing Importance Of Social Groups Is Now General Property In America.

He Who Wishes To Maintain That The Past Of Mankind No Longer Has Any Absolute Value In Lifemust Also Be Ready To Deny His Ownlife Until The Present Moment, Indeed In Advance Until The Last Moment, As Worthless. He Who Realizes That Culture Is The Giving Of Form Will Also See That The Highest Forms That It Is Given To The Human Spirit To Recognize Have Always Been, Psychologically Considered, Such Evasions From The Present. Considerations Such As These Do Not At All Square With The Direction Of America's Mind.

A Crude Mind Could Easily Think: Something Is Valid, Therefore It Is True.

Life Is Made Too Easy. Mankind's Moral Fibre Is Giving Way Under The Softening Influence Of Luxury.