If A Socialist Economy Is Opened Up

He Who Sups With The Devil Had Better Have A Long Spoon. The Devilry Of Modernity Has Its Own Magic: The [believer] Who Sups With It Will Find His Spoon Getting Shorter And Shorter--until That Last Supper In Which He Is Left Alone At The Table, With No Spoon At All And With An Empty Plate. The Devil, One May Guess, Will By Then Have Gone Away To More Interesting Company.

There Is A Continuum Of Values Between The Churches And The General Community. What Distinguishes The Handling Of These Values In The Churches Is Mainly The Heavier Dosage Of Religious Vocabulary Involved

Some People Think That As The Chinese Economy Becomes More And More Capitalistic It Will Inevitably Become More Democratic

I'm Sure Putnam Is Right That There's Been A Decline In Certain Kinds Of Organizations Like Bowling Leagues. But People Participate In Communities In Other Ways.

The Past Is Malleable And Flexible, Changing As Our Recollection Interprets And Re-explains What Has Happened.