"It is without doubt true that all men, of whatever race or degree of civilization, are essentially alike; they consti…"

"[M]an when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal."

"[P]hilosophy is not a matter for adjustment, as a means, to national requirements, but every nation and individual th…"

"The West, at bottom, is a form of society, rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social con…"

"American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the …"

"… Hassan promotes the BITE model as a scientific method for identifying “destructive cults,” claiming it can distingu…"

"The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable conditions of all precise thinking. No subject can …"

"Man does not dwell at the centre of things, but is the denizen of an obscure and tiny speck of cosmical matter quite …"

"In a very deep sense all human science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and all human art is the increme…"

"The United States—bounded on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on th…"