The Nation Seems To Slouch Onward Into

Intellect Needs To Be Understood Not As Some Kind Of Claim Against The Other Human Excellences For Which A Fatally High Price Has To Be Paid, But Rather As A Complement To Them Without Which They Cannot Be Fully Consummated.

To The Zealot Overcome By His Piety And To The Journeyman Of Ideas Concerned Only With His Marketable Mental Skills, The Beginning And End Of Ideas Lies In Their Efficacy With Respect To Some Goal External To Intellectual Processes.

Anti-intellectualism ... Has Been Present In Some Form And Degree In Most Societies; In One It Takes The Form Of The Administering Of Hemlock, In Another Of Town-and-gown Riots, In Another Of Censorship And Regimentation, In Still Another Of Congressional Investigations.

To The Reactionary Ear Every Whispered Criticism Of The Elite Classes Has Always Sounded Like The Opening Shot Of An Uprising.

We Have Learned So Well How To Absorb Novelty That Receptivity Itself Has Turned Into A Kind Of Tradition- "the Tradition Of The New." Yesterdays Avant-garde Experiment Is Today's Chic And Tomorrows Cliche.