The more we study the past, the more clearly we recognize that there are no "ages of faith." Such labels merely represent the arbitrary cuts which we make in the time-stream, the arbitrary colours which we give to it.

The spiritual man or woman is always fundamentally the same kind of man or woman; always reaching out with the same faith and love towards the heart of the same universe, though telling that faith and love in various tongues.

He is far less the child of his time, than the transformer of it.

His this-world business is to bring in novelty, new reality, fresh life.

Yet, coming to fulfil not to destroy, he uses for this purpose the traditions, creeds, even the institutions of his day.
But when he has done with them, they do not look the same as they did before.