We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.

We find it hard to believe that other people&#39;s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

Christopher Dawson

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Written By Christopher Dawson

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