Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from … - Ralph Adams Cram

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I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like. "

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 history.

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

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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 philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

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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, a process began which was almost mechanical.

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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 evolutionary drama.

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

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