To Rulers Religion, Like Almost Everything Else,

Civilization Exists By Geological Consent, Subject To Change Without Notice.

To Seek, Beneath The Universal Strife, The Hidden Harmony Of Things.

Can A Civilization Hold Together If Man Abandons His Faith In God?

Nature Smiles At The Union Of Freedom And Equality In Our Utopias. For Freedom And Equality Are Sworn And Everlasting Enemies, And When One Prevails The Other Dies.

A History Of Civilization Shares The Presumptuousness Of Every Philosophical Enterprise: It Offers The Ridiculous Spectacle Of A Fragment Expounding The Whole. Like Philosophy, Such A Venture Has No Rational Excuse, And Is At Best But A Brave Stupidity; But Let Us Hope That, Like Philosophy, It Will Always Lure Some Rash Spirits Into Its Fatal Depths.