The Man Who Is Fond Of Books

You Can Give Men Food And Leisure And Amusements And Good Conditions Of Work, And Still They Will Remain Unsatisfied. You Can Deny Them All These Things, And They Will Not Complain So Long As They Feel That They Have Something To Die For

Law Describes The Way Things Would Work If Men Were Angels.

We Have Entered A New Phase Of Culture - We May Call It The Age Of The Cinema - In Which The Most Amazing Perfection Of Scientific Technique Is Being Devoted To Purely Ephemeral Objects, Without Any Consideration Of Their Ultimate Justification. It Seems As Though A New Society Was Arising Which Will Acknowledge No Hierarchy Of Values, No Intellectual Authority, And No Social Or Religious Tradition, But Which Will Live For The Moment In A Chaos Of Pure Sensation.

The Sublimated Idealism Of The Enlightenment, The Spirit Of The League Of Nations And Of The United Nations Charter Have Not Proved Strong Enough To Control The Aggressive Dynamism Of Nationalism.

No Society Lies Nearer To The Cyclonic Path Of The Forces Of World Change Than The United States, And Few Societies Are More Intellectually Aware Of The Nature Of The Issues That Have To Be Faced