The Test And The Use Of Man's

The One Thing That Unifies Men In A Given Age Is Not Their Individual Philosophies But The Dominant Problem That These Philosophies Are Designed To Solve.

Idealism Springs From Deep Feelings, But Feelings Are Nothing Without The Formulated Idea That Keeps Them Whole.

For The Educated, The Authority Of Science Rested On The Strictness Of Its Methods; For The Mass, It Rested On The Powers Of Explanation.

A Man Who Has Both Feet Planted Firmly In The Air Can Be Safely Called A Liberal As Opposed To The Conservative, Who Has Both Feet Firmly Planted In His Mouth.

A Culture May Be Conceived As A Network Of Beliefs And Purposes In Which Any String In The Net Pulls And Is Pulled By The Others,thus Perpetually Changing The Configuration Of The Whole. If The Cultural Element Called Morals Takes On A New Shape, We Must Ask What Other Strings Have Pulled It Out Of Line. It Cannot Be One Solitary String, Nor Even The Strings Nearby, For The Network Is Three-dimensional At Least.