Modern Politics Is, At Bottom, A Struggle

Practical Politics Consists In Ignoring Facts.

Boys Naturally Look On All Force As An Enemy.

American Society Is A Sort Of Flat, Fresh-water Pond Which Absorbs Silently, Without Reaction, Anything Which Is Thrown Into It.

The Hymns Of David, The Plays Of Shakespeare, The Metaphysics Of Descartes, The Crimes Of Borgia, The Virtues Of Antonine, The Atheism Of Yesterday And The Materialism Of Today, Were All Emanations Of Divine Thought, Doing Their Appointed Work. It Was The Duty Of The Church To Deal With Them All, Not As Though They Existed Through A Power Hostile To The Deity, But As Instruments Of The Deity To Work Out His Unrevealed Ends.

Artists... Disappeared Long Ago As Social Forces. So Did The Church.