The Spirit Is At Home, If Not

Only When The True Ends Of Society Have Nothing To Do With The Sublime Does "culture" Become Necessary As A Veneer To Cover Over The Void. Culture Can At Best Appreciate The Monuments Of Earlier Faith; It Cannot Produce Them.

The Old View Was That Delicacy Of Language Was Part Of The Nature, The Sacred Nature, Of Eros And That To Speak About It In Any Other Way Would Be To Misunderstand It. What Has Disappeared Is The Risk And The Hope Of Human Connectedness Embedded In Eros. Ours Is A Language That Reduces The Longing For An Other To The Need For Individual, Private Satisfaction And Safety.

As Western Nations Became More Prosperous, Leisure, Which Had Been Put Off For Several Centuries In Favor Of The Pursuit Of Property, The Means To Leisure, Finally Began To Be Of Primary Concern. But, In The Meantime, Any Notion Of The Serious Life Of Leisure, As Well As Men's Taste And Capacity To Live It, Had Disappeared.

Children Tend To Be Rather Better Observers Of Adults' Characters Than Adults Are Of Children's, Because Children Are So Dependent On Adults That It Is Very Much In Their Interest To Discover The Weaknesses Of Their Elders.

Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Property Were Just What Aristotle Did Not Talk About. They Are The Conditions Of Happiness; But The Essence Of Happiness, According To Aristotle, Is Virtue. So The Moderns Decided To Deal With The Conditions And To Let Happiness Take Care Of Itself.