The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.

Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest (ed. University of Wisconsin Pres, 2015) - ISBN: 9780299304843