Those Who Know Nothing About History Are

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.

Continue To Express Your Dissent And Your Needs, But Remember To Remain Civilized, For You Will Sorely Miss Civilization If It Is Sacrified In The Turbulence Of Change.

We Americans Are The Best Informed People On Earth As To The Events Of The Last Twenty-four Hours; We Are The Not The Best Informed As The Events Of The Last Sixty Centuries.

To Speak Ill Of Others Is A Dishonest Way Of Praising Ourselves; Let Us Be Above Such Transparent Egotism. If You Can't Say Good And Encouraging Things, Say Nothing. Nothing Is Often A Good Thing To Do, And Always A Clever Thing To Say.

So I Should Say That Civilizations Begin With Religion And Stoicism: They End With Scepticism And Unbelief, And The Undisciplined Pursuit Of Individual Pleasure. A Civilization Is Born Stoic And Dies Epicurean.