The Finger That Turns The Dial Rules

We Americans Are The Best Informed People On Earth As To The Events Of The Last Twenty-four Hours; We Are The Not The Best Informed As The Events Of The Last Sixty Centuries.

I Feel For All Faiths The Warm Sympathy Of One Who Has Come To Learn That Even The Trust In Reason Is A Precarious Faith, And That We Are All Fragments Of Darkness Groping For The Sun. I Know No More About The Ultimates Than The Simplest Urchin In The Streets.

The Islamic Conquest Of India Is Probably The Bloodiest Story In History. It Is A Discouraging Tale, For Its Evident Moral Is That Civilization Is A Precious Good, Whose Delicate Complex Of Order And Freedom, Culture And Peace, Can At Any Moment Be Overthrown By Barbarians Invading From Without Or Multiplying Within.

As Long As There Is Poverty There Will Be Gods.

Our Knowledge Is A Receding Mirage In An Expanding Desert Of Ignorance.