Mankind has, since it became vertebrate, moved slowly, very, very slowly, toward that world in which goodwill at last triumphed completely. And I believe that tyranny and torture, riot and retribution, war’s waste and war’s wantonness, all the black pages of man’s history are only insulated, unwelcome bivouacs on his inexorable march to a civilization that is good. I think that good as opposed to evil is the more difficult condition to obtain, and I’m speaking now of the arbitrary and absolute good. I believe that good must be arrived at through the will, through the discipline that rejects evil as incompatible with conscience.