“In the field of its highest development, in the United Stat…

“In the field of its highest development, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth, stripped of its religious and ethical meaning, tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which often actually give it the character of sport.” Who is the author of this statement?

“If, for example, the mind must suddenly deal with what it t…

“If, for example, the mind must suddenly deal with what it takes to be a radically new form of life…the response on the whole is conservative and defensive. […] The threat is muted, familiar values impose themselves, and in the end the mid reduces the pressure upon it by accommodating things to itself as either ‘original’ or ‘repetitious.’” Who is the author of this statement?

“The geographic boundaries I have been discussing accompany…

“The geographic boundaries I have been discussing accompany the social, ethnic, and cultural ones in expected ways. Yet very often the sense in which someone feels himself to be not-foreign is based on a very unrigorous idea of what is ‘out there’, beyond one’s own territory. All kinds of suppositions, associations, fictions appear to crowd the unfamiliar and strange space outside one’s place…” Who is the author of this statement?