The Very Discovery Of The New World

Total Separation Of Church And State Was Considered The Best Safeguard For The Health Of Each. As [andrew] Jackson Explained, In Refusing To Name A Fast Day, He Feared To 'disturb The Security Which Religion Now Enjoys In This Country, In Its Complete Separation From The Political Concerns Of The General Government.'

Politics In A Democracy Is, At The End, An Educational Process.

Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often It Is Those Who Can Remember The Past Who Are Condemned To Repeat It.

The Great Religious Ages Were Notable For Their Indifference To Human Rights... Not Only For Acquiescence In Poverty, Inequality, Exploitation And Oppression, But Also For Enthusiastic Justifications For Slavery, Persecution, Abandonment Of Small Children, Torture, And Genocide... Moreover, Religion Enshrined Hierarchy, Authority, And Inequality... It Was The Age Of Equality That Brought About The Disappearance Of Such Religious Appurtenances As The Auto-da-fe And Burning At The Stake.

Science And Technology Revolutionize Our Lives, But Memory, Tradition And Myth Frame Our Response. Expelled From Individual Consciousness By The Rush Of Change, History Finds Its Revenge By Stamping The Collective Unconscious With Habits, Values, Expectations, Dreams. The Dialectic Between Past And Future Will Continue To Form Our Lives.