History, As The Study Of

In Europe Art Has To A Large Degree Taken The Place Of Religion. In America It Seems Rather To Be Science.

The Modern City Hardly Knows A Pure Darkness Or True Silence Anymore, Nor Does It Know The Effect Of A Single Small Light Or That Of A Lonely Distant Shout.

History Can Predict Nothing Except That Great Changes In Human Relationships Will Never Come About In The Form In Which They Have Been Anticipated.

The Slogan Offers A Counterweight To The General Dispersion Of Thought By Holding It Fast To A Single, Utterly Succinct And Unforgettable Expression, One Which Usually Inspires Men To Immediate Action. It Abolishes Reflection: The Slogan Does Not Argue, It Asserts And Commands.

We Have To Transpose Ourselves Into This Impressionability Of Mind, Into This Sensitivity To Tears And Spiritual Repentance, Intothis Susceptibility, Before We Can Judge How Colorful And Intensive Life Was Then.