An individual’s adherence to a certain faith is often determined by the geographical accident of the locality of his birth-place. - Arnold J. Toynbee

We have observed that the germ of creative power in Christianity was not of Hellenic but of alien origin (in fact of Syriac origin, as we can now identify it). By contrast we can observe that the creative germ of Islam was not alien from, but native to, the Syriac Society.

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

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.