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Men And Women Do Not Easily Submit To A Power That Does Not Weave Itself Into The Texture Of Their Daily Existence - One Reason Why Culture Remains So Politically Vital. Civilisation Cannot Get On With Culture, And It Cannot Get On Without It.

It Is In Rousseau's Writing Above All That History Begins To Turn From Upper-class Honour To Middle-class Humanitarianism. Pity, Sympathy And Compassion Lie At The Centre Of His Moral Vision. Values Associated With The Feminine Begin To Infiltrate Social Existence As A Whole, Rather Than Being Confined To The Domestic Sphere.

If History, Philosophy And So On Vanish From Academic Life, What They Leave In Their Wake May Be A Technical Training Facility Or Corporate Research Institute. But It Will Not Be A University In The Classical Sense Of The Term, And It Would Be Deceptive To Call It One.

The Kantian Imperative To Have The Courage To Think For Oneself Has Involved A Contemptuous Disregard For The Resources Of Tradition And An Infantile View Of Authority As Inherently Oppressive.

Today, Nostalgia Is Almost As Unacceptable As Racism.