of voltare and Rousseau destroyed the French, aristocracy. But ideas can also build, whereas the sword can only destroy. It is in fact the power of ideas which has brought us out of barbarism into
such civilization as we have been above to achieve. "In what" asked Aristotle, "does man differ from the animal?" And answered, "It is by virtue of reason". The greatness of man consists in his thinking. The universe is vast, and man is tiny, but man has one advantage over the universe. He knows it is vast and he is tiny, but the universe does not. In this savage, the sense that it is to ideas
and not to violence, to the pen and not to the sword, that man owes whatever had distinguished him from animals, whatever has enabled him to rise above purely savage condition. For the pen is
the vehicle of thought, and it is by thought that man is enabled to voyge through the infinite philosophy, to unlock the secrets of the universe, to create beauty and to commune with God.
