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Historicism And Cultural Relativism Actually Are A Means To Avoid Testing Our Own Prejudices And Asking, For Example, Whether Men Are Really Equal Or Whether That Opinion Is Merely A Democratic Prejudice.

Continental Thinkers Have Been Obsessed With Bourgeois Man As Representing The Worst And Most Contemptible Failure Of Modernity, Which Must At All Costs Be Overcome. Nihilism In Its Most Palpable Sense Means That The Bourgeois Has Won, That The Future, All Foreseeable Futures, Belong To Him, That All Heights Above Him And All Depths Beneath Him Are Illusory And That Life Is Not Worth Living On These Terms.

The De-eroticization Of The World, A Companion To Its Disenchantment ... Seems To Result From A Combination Of Causes Our Democratic Regime And Its Tendencies Toward Leveling And Self-protection, A Reductionist-materialist Science That Inevitably Interprets Eros As Sex, And The Atmosphere Generated By "the Death Of God" And Of The Subordinate God, Eros.

The Sirens Sing Sotto Voce These Days, And The Young Already Have Enough Wax In Their Ears To Pass Them By Without Danger.

The Importance Of These [college] Years For An American Cannot Be Overestimated. They Are Civilization's Only Chance To Get To Him.