A contemporary quote?

[Southern Presbyterian]

You tell me.

Our age is so impressed with its own greatness, it is so intoxicated by its brilliant achievements in amassing material wealth and making physical discoveries that it esteems itself too highly. It tends to despise all that it has not itself discovered. It is too ready to receive the new because it is the new, and to throw away the old because it is old. Every age runs towards godlessness. Much of the new in our age is godless. Hence we are in danger of repudiating the best of our inheritance from the past. Hence, also our need of some good man with penetration and insight to discern between good and evil, with heroic boldness to warn us against an evil course....

~Thomas Cary Johnson, in The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney, p. 716.