It Is Easy Today To Deny God's

[a]ny Notion Of The Serious Life Of Leisure, As Well As Men's Taste And Capacity To Live It, Had Disappeared. Leisure Became Entertainment.

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.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, And All The Others Knew They Were Giving Rights To Vulgarity. But In So Doing In Addition To Caring For Man's Well-being They Were Providing Rights For Themselves.

A Serious Life Means Being Fully Aware Of The Alternatives, Thinking About Them With All The Intensity One Brings To Bear On Life-and-death Questions, In Full Recognition That Every Choice Is A Great Risk With Necessary Consequences That Are Hard To Bear.

The Liberally Educated Person Is One Who Is Able To Resist The Easy And Preferred Answers, Not Because He Is Obstinate But Because He Knows Others Worthy Of Consideration.