In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
