“The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to t…” — Daniel Bell

But in action, one defies one's character.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.