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There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and…
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal…
As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of…
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is…
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking…
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in…
We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are…
It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally…

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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature… — Nicolas Cage
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It… — Noam Chomsky
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the… — Thomas Jefferson
The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous. — Unknown Author
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Unknown Author
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr

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