And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the people's minds. - Clifford D. Simak

And here and there a human who saw the rightness of the proposition that Man could not, by mere self-assertion, be a special being; understanding that it was to his greater glory to take his place among the other things of life, as a simple thing of life, as a form of life that could lead and teach and be a friend rather than a thing that conquered and ruled and stood as one apart.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

You do not understand what happens in war—a sort of sublime madness, an unholy hatred that is twisted into an unreasoning sense of righteousness…