As Soon As Liberty Is

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.

In Its Youth A People Produce Mythology And Poetry; In Its Decadence, Philosophy And Logic.

When Liberty Exceeds Intelligence, It Begets Chaos, Which Begets Dictatorship.

The Love We Have In Our Youth Is Superficial Compared To The Love That An Old Man Has For His Old Wife.

There Is Hardly An Absurdity Of The Past That Cannot Be Found Flourishing Somewhere In The Present.