We Must Recognize That We Are Living

If Man Attempts To Suppress The Animal Side Of His Nature By A Sheer Effort Of Conscious Will, Nature Finds A Hundred Unexpected And Unpleasant Ways To Take Its Revenge.

American Literature Has Never Been Content To Be Just One Among The Many Literatures Of The Western World. It Has Always Aspired To Be The Literature Not Only Of A New Continent But Of A New World.

This Freedom Of Political Discussion On The Highest Level Is Something Which Western Civilization Has In Common With That Of Classical Antiquity, But With No Other

It Is Impossible For Us To Understand The Church If We Regard Her As Subject To The Limitations Of Human Culture. For She Is Essentially A Supernatural Organism Which Transcends Human Cultures And Transforms Them To Her Own Ends.

The True Makes Of History Are The Spiritual Men Whom The World Knew Not, The Unregarded Agents Of The Creative Action Of The Spirit. The Supreme Instance Of This-the Key To The Christian Understanding Of History-is To Be Found In The Incarnation- The Presence Of The Maker Of The World In The World Unknown To The World. ... The Incarnation Is Itself In A Sense The Divine Fruit Of History-of The Fullness Of Time-and It Finds Its Extension And Completion In The Historic Life Of The Church.