In My Youth I Stressed

Civilization Begins With Order, Grows With Liberty, And Dies With Chaos.

The Failure Of The Reformation To Capture France Had Left For Frenchmen No Half-way House Between Infallibility And Infidelity; And While The Intellect Of Germany And England Moved Leisurely In The Lines Of Religious Evolution, The Mind Of France Leaped From The Hot Faith Which Had Massacred The Huguenots To The Cold Hostility With Which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, And Diderot Turned Upon The Religion Of The Fathers.

We Are Living In The Excesses Of Freedom. Just Take A Look At 42nd Street And Broadway.

I Feel For All Faiths The Warm Sympathy Of One Who Has Come To Learn That Even The Trust In Reason Is A Precarious Faith, And That We Are All Fragments Of Darkness Groping For The Sun. I Know No More About The Ultimates Than The Simplest Urchin In The Streets.

The Laws That Charondas Gave To Catana,... A Man Might Divorce His Wife, Or A Wife Her Husband, Said Charondas, But Then He Or She Must Not Marry Anyone Younger Than The Divorced Mate.