Ralph Adams Cram Quotes

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• Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
• As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new…
• Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
• 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…
• 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…
• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in…
• The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
• Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization,…
• True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is,…
• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned…

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