• Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization.

    Charles Lindbergh: Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist,
 Western European civilization.
    "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.