So, loath to suffer mute. We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear. - Matthew Arnold

The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

And we forget because we must

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. He who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.