The orthodoxies of the most solidly established high religious ages, founded as they were upon a belief in the transcendent sources of truth, have always been safeguarded by their very belief in the transcendent from the idolatry of man’s worship of himself and his established habits. It is hard to think of an age which, with less reason, has been more smugly self-satisfied than ours.
I suspect that these ideas, planted in the American mind before you were born, will be so different from those expressed in this book that you may have some difficulty in understanding how your grandfather “got that way.” That could provide you with some good, clean fun-trying to reconstruct a long-lost pattern of thought.
When you are old enough to read this book there will be a Society and there will be a State, and both will take their character from the reigning ideas of the times.
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