The Mastery Of Nature Is Vainly Believed

All Social Cooperation On A Larger Scale Than The Most Intimate Social Group Requires A Measure Of Coercion.

Our Age Knows Nothing But Reaction, And Leaps From One Extreme To Another.

All This Talk About Atheistic Materialism And God-fearing American I Think Is Beside The Point; It's A Rather Vapid Form Of Religion.

To The End Of History, Social Orders Will Probably Destroy Themselves In An Effort To Prove They Are Indestructible.

The Measure Of Our Rationality Determines The Degree Of Vividness With Which We Appreciate The Needs Of Other Life, The Extent To Which We Become Conscious Of The Real Character Of Our Own Motives And Impulses, The Ability To Harmonize Conflicting Impulses In Our Own Life And In Society, And The Capacity To Choose Adequate Means For Approved Ends.