The Love Of Americans For Their Country

Absolute Atheism Starts In An Act Of Faith In Reverse Gear And Is A Full-blown Religious Commitment. Here We Have The First Internal Inconsistency Of Contemporary Atheism: It Proclaims That All Religion Must Necessarily Vanish Away, And It Is Itself A Religious Phenomenon.

The First Step To Be Taken By Everyone Who Wishes To Act Morally Is To Decide Not To Act According To The General Customs And Doings Of His Fellow-men.

The Aim Of Education Is To Guide Young Persons In The Process Through Which They Shape Themselves As Human Persons-armed With Knowledge, Strength Of Judgment, And Moral Virtues-while At The Same Time Conveying To Them The Spiritual Heritage Of The Nation And The Civilization In Which They Are Involved.

The Division Between The Useful Arts And The Fine Arts Must Not Be Understood In Too Absolute A Manner. In The Humblest Work Of The Craftsmen, If Art Is There, There Is A Concern For Beauty, Through A Kind Of Indirect Repercussion That The Requirements Of The Creativity Of The Spirit Exercise Upon The Production Of An Object To Serve Human Needs.

For To Love Is To Give What One Is, His Very Being, In The Most Absolute, The Most Brazenly Metaphysical, The Least Phenomenalizable Sense Of This Word.