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It Has Been Our Fate As A Nation Not To Have Ideologies But To Be One.

The Intellectual Is Engage-he Is Pledged, Committed, Enlisted. What Everyone Else Is Willing To Admit, Namely That Ideas And Abstractions Are Of Signal Importance In Human Life, He Imperatively Feels.

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.

If There Is Anything More Dangerous To The Life Of The Mind Than Having No Independent Commitment To Ideas, It Is Having An Excess Of Commitment To Some Special And Constricting Idea.

One Of The Primary Tests Of The Mood Of A Society At Any Given Time Is Whether Its Comfortable People Tend To Identify, Psychologically, With The Power And Achievements Of The Very Successful Or With The Needs And Sufferings Of The Underprivileged.