In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.