When, In The Present World, Men Behave

Science Has Always Promised Two Things Not Necessarily Related; An Increase First In Our Powers, Second In Our Happiness Or Wisdom, And We Have Come To Realize That It Is The First And Less Important Of The Two Promises Which It Has Kept Most Abundantly.

Civilizations Die From Philosophical Calm, Irony, And A Sense Of Fair Play Quite As Surely As They Die Of Debauchery.

When, In The Present World, Men Behave Well, That Is No Doubt Sometimes Because They Are Creatures Of Habit As Well As, Sometimes, Because They Are Reasonable.

A Humanist Is Anyone Who Rejects The Attempt To Describe Or Account For Man Wholly On The Basis Of Physics, Chemistry Or Animal Behaviour.

Whenever Man Forgets That Man Is An Animal, The Result Is Always To Make Him Less Humane.