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
