Too Much Agreement Kills The Chat.

You Cannot Criticize The New Testament. It Criticizes You.

The Reason For The Slow Progress Of The World Seems To Lie In A Single Fact. Every Man Is Born Under The Yoke, And Grows Up Beneath The Oppressions Of His Age. He Can Only Get A Vision Of The Unselfish Forces In The World By Appealing To Them, And Every Appeal Is A Call To Arms. If He Fights He Must Fight, Not One Man, But A Conspiracy. He Is Always At War With A Civilization. On His Side Is Proverbial Philosophy, A Galaxy Of Invisible Saints And Sages, And The Half-developed Consciousness And Professions Of Everybody. Against Him Is The World, And Every Selfish Passion In His Own Heart.

Wherever You See A Man Who Gives Someone Else's Corruption, Someone Else's Prejudice As A Reason For Not Taking Action Himself, You See A Cog In The Machine That Governs Us.

A Vision Of Truth Which Does Not Call Upon Us To Get Out Of Our Armchair - Why, This Is The Desideratum Of Mankind.

One Of The Deepest Impulses In Man Is The Impulse To Record, - To Scratch A Drawing On A Tusk Or Keep A Diary, To Collect Sagas And Heap Cairns. This Instinct As To The Enduring Value Of The Past Is, One Might Say, The Very Basis Of Civilization.