The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their app… - Richard M. Weaver

Now, with the general decay of religious faith, it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.

The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.