Intellect Needs To Be Understood Not As

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

We Are All Sufferers From History, But The Paranoid Is A Double Sufferer, Since He Is Afflicted Not Only By The Real World, With The Rest Of Us, But By His Fantasies As Well.

It Is Ironic That The United States Should Have Been Founded By Intellectuals, For Throughout Most Of Our Political History, The Intellectual Has Been For The Most Part Either An Outsider, A Servant Or A Scapegoat.

As With The Pursuit Of Happiness, The Pursuit Of Truth Is Itself Gratifying Whereas The Consummation Often Turns Out To Be Elusive.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., In A Mordant Protest Written Soon After The [1952] Election, Found The Intellectual "in A Situation He Has Not Known For A Generation." After Twenty Years Of Democratic Rule, During Which The Intellectual Had Been In The Main Understood And Respected, Business Had Come Back Into Power, Bringing With It "the Vulgarization Which Has Been The Almost Invariable Consequence Of Business Supremacy.