How then, once overthrown, shall this great civilization, except by renewed Forces and Pressures, ever come again? - George R. Stewart

“There are no atheists in foxholes,” he remembered, but the whole world now was nothing but a huge foxhole! But certainly what had happened did not inspire one to think that God was particularly interested in the human race, or in its individuals.

What a strange thing then is this great civilization, that no sooner have men attained it than they seek to flee from it!

It was all tied up in that same old question. How much did man strike outward to affect all his surroundings and how much did the surroundings press in upon him? Did the Napoleonic Age produce Napoleon or did he produce it?