These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.