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To Be Sick And Helpless Is A Humiliating Experience. Prolonged Illness Also Carries The Hazard Of Narcissistic Self-absorption.

Intellectualism, Though By No Means Confined To Doubters, Is Often The Sole Piety Of The Skeptic.

Intellect Is Resented As A Form Of Power Or Privilege.

The Tradition Of The New. Yesterday's Avant-gard-experiment Is Today's Chic And Tomorrow's Cliche.

The American Farmer, Whose Holdings Were Not So Extensive As Those Of The Grandee Nor So Tiny As Those Of The Peasant, Whose Psychology Was Protestant And Bourgeois, And Whose Politics Were Petty-capitalist Rather Than Traditionalist, Had No Reason To Share The Social Outlook Of The Rural Classes Of Europe. In Europe Land Was Limited And Dear, While Labor Was Abundant And Relatively Cheap; In America The Ratio Between Land And Labor Was Inverted.