Ralph Adams Cram

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act…

— Ralph Adams Cram

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

— Ralph Adams Cram

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure…

— Ralph Adams Cram

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

— Ralph Adams Cram

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part,…

— Ralph Adams Cram

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an…

— Ralph Adams Cram

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it…

— Ralph Adams Cram

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

— Ralph Adams Cram

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

— Ralph Adams Cram

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of…

— Ralph Adams Cram

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative…

— Ralph Adams Cram

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its…

— Ralph Adams Cram