"In its amplest meaning history includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since firs…"

"It gives one something of a shock, indeed, to consider what a very small part of our guiding convictions are in any w…"

"It is impossible to divide the past into distinct, clearly defined periods and prove that one age ended and another b…"

"This tendency of mankind to do, in general, this year what it did last, in spite of changes in some one department of…"

"During the tenth and eleventh centuries the rule of the Church prohibiting the clergy from marrying appears to have b…"

"It is a poor technic when attempting to convert one's neighbor to attack his beliefs directly, especially those of th…"

"It is true that biologists have, many of them, given up what they call "Darwinism"; they have surrendered Spencer's n…"

"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…"