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We Have Conferred A Mystic Popularity Upon Officials Whose Only Virtue Is Their Timidity; While Our Scorn Of Rebels And Reformers Is So Great That We Have Ceased To Persecute Them. The Capitals And Governments Of The World Are In The Hands Of Caution; And Change Comes Over Them Only In The Night, Unseen.

There Is No Significant Example In History, Before Our Time, Of A Society Successfully Maintaining Moral Life Without The Aid Of Religion.

Drunkenness Was In Good Repute In England Till "bloody Mary" Frowned Upon It; It Remained Popular In Germany. The French Drank More Stably, Not Being Quite So Cold.

Friends Are Helpful Not Only Because They Will Listen To Us, But Because They Will Laugh At Us; Through Them We Learn A Little Objectivity, A Little Modesty, A Little Courtesy; We Learn The Rules Of Life And Become Better Players Of The Game

Historically The Belief In Heaven And The Belief In Utopia Are Like Compensatory Buckets In A Well: When One Goes Down The Other Comes Up. When The Classic Religions Decayed, Communistic Agitation Rose In Athens (430 B.c.), And Revolution Began In Rome (133 B.c.); When These Movements Failed, Resurrection Faiths Succeeded, Culminating In Christianity; When, In Our Eighteenth Century, Christian Belief Weakened, Communism Reappeared. In This Perspective The Future Of Religion Is Secure.