Saturday, December 14, 2013

Today's Maxwell Quote

From A Time to Choose (1975), 68-69:
Those caught up in faith as a fad often display contempt for those who do not believe in the "doctrine" of the day. John Lukacs, in The Passing of the Modern Age, observed that, in some respects, the opening of windows to the world can result in "letting in neon light rather than sunlight, gasoline fumes rather than fresh air, the din of publicity rather than the harmonies of nature."