History Reports That The Men Who Can

Those Who Have Suffered Much Become Very Bitter Or Very Gentle.

Science Tells Us How To Heal And How To Kill; It Reduces Our Death Rate In Retail And Then Kills Us Wholesale In War; But Only Wisdom - Desire Coordinated In The Light Of All Experience - Can Tell Us When To Heal And When To Kill.

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.

The Victors Called The Revolution A Triumph Of Liberty; But Now And Then Liberty In The Slogans Of The Strong Means Freedom From Restraint In The Exploitation Of The Weak.

Nothing Is Often A Good Thing To Do And Always A Good Thing To Say.