We cannot escape from our traditions.

There never has been, and never can be, any "age of reason." The most ardent co-called "free-thinker," who casts aside as he imagines the authority of the Christian past, is still held by that past.

If its traditions are not absolutely in his blood, they are ingrained in the texture of all the social institutions into which he was born and they affect even his modes of thinking.

The latest modifications of our institutions are inevitably influenced by the past form of those institutions.

We cannot realize where we are, nor whither we are moving, unless we know whence we came.