Reason Is Not The Sole

Despotism, Which We Regard With Abhorrence, Is Rather Too Plausible In Decaying Feudal, Agrarian, Pastoral Societies. That's Why We Must Expect To Have Many A Defeat Before We'll Have An Ultimate Victory In This Contest With Communism.

The Jews Were The Money-lenders Of The Middle Ages So There's A Stereotype Of The Slightly Or More Than Slightly Dishonest Business Man And This Stereotype Covers And Obscures All The Facts.

The Scientific Observer Of The Realm Of Nature Is In A Sense Naturally And Inevitably Disinterested. At Least, Nothing In The Natural Scene Can Arouse His Bias. Furthermore, He Stands Completely Outside Of The Natural So That His Mind, Whatever His Limitations, Approximates Pure Mind. The Observer Of The Realm Of History Cannot Be Disinterested In The Same Way, For Two Reasons: First, He Must Look At History From Some Locus In History; Secondly, He Is To A Certain Degree Engaged In Its Ideological Conflicts.

The History Of Mankind Is A Perennial Tragedy; For The Highest Ideals Which The Individual May Project Are Ideals Which He Can Never Realize In Social And Collective Terms.

History May Defeat The Christ But It Nevertheless Points To Him As The Law Of Life.