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The Comedy Of Each Age Holds Up A Mirror To The People Of That Age, A Mirror That Is Unique.

Civilization...is A Matter Of Imponderables, Of Delight In The Thins Of The Mind, Of Love Of Beauty, Of Honor, Grace, Courtesy, Delicate Feeling. Where Imponderables, Are Things Of First Importance, There Is The Height Of Civilization, And, If At The Same Time, The Power Of Art Exists Unimpaired, Human Life Has Reached A Level Seldom Attained And Very Seldom Surpassed.

In Every Civilization, Life Grows Easier. Men Grow Lazier In Consequence. We Have A Picture Of What Happened To The Individual Greek. (i Cannot Look At History, Or At Any Human Action, Except As I Look At The Individual.) The Greeks Had Good Food, Good Witty Talk, Pleasant Dinner Parties; And They Were Content. When The Individual Man Had Reached That Condition In Athens, When The Thought Not Of Giving To The State But Of What The State Could Give To Him, Athens' Freedom Was Doomed.

The Temper Of Mind That Sees Tragedy In Life Has Not For Its Opposite The Temper That Sees Joy. The Opposite Pole To The Tragic View Of Life Is The Sordid View.

In Theology The Conservative Temper Tends To Formalism.