"The roots of modern civilization are planted deeply in the highly elaborate life of those nations which rose into pow…"

"[T]he eastern Mediterranean region...lies in the midst of the vast desert plateau, which, beginning at the Atlantic, …"

"[T]he past was supreme; the priest who cherished it lived in a realm of shadows, and for the contemporary world he ha…"

"The limits of the dominion of the Egyptian gods had been fixed as the outer fringes of the Nile valley long before th…"

"It was universalism expressed in terms of imperial power which first caught the imagination of the thinking men of th…"

"It lies like an army facing south, with one wing stretching along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the othe…"

"It has now become a sinister commonplace in the life of the post-war generation that man has never had any hesitation…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"

"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"

"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"