“Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.”
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
