Western culture may be compared to a lake fed by the stream of Hellenism, Christianity, science, and these contributions might offer an
extremely valuable way of considering the conceptions of a life of reason, the principle of an ordered and intelligible world, the ideas of faith, of a personal God, of the absolute value of the human individual, the method of
observation and experiment, and the conception of empirical laws, as well as the doctrines of equality and of the brotherhood of man.