Revolution As An Ideal Concept Always Preserves

Today The Average Inhabitant Of The Western Hemisphere Knows A Little Of Everything. He Has The Newspaper On His Breakfast Table And Wireless Within Reach. For The Evening There Is The Film, Cards, Or A Meeting To Complete A Day Spent In The Office Or Factory Where Nothing That Is Essential Has Been Learnt. With Slight Variation This Picture Of A Low Cultural Average Holds Good Over The Entire Range From Factory-hand Of Clerk To Manager Or Director. Only The Personal Will To Culture, In Whatever Field And However Pursued Raises Modern Man Above This Level.

If A Serious Statement Is Defined As One That May Be Made In Terms Of Waking Life, Poetry Will Never Rise To The Level Of Seriousness. It Lies Beyond Seriousness, On That More Primitive And Original Level Where The Child, The Animal, The Savage, And The Seer Belong, In The Region Of Dream, Enchantment, Ecstasy, Laughter. To Understand Poetry We Must Be Capable Of Donning The Child's Soul Like A Magic Cloak And Of Forsaking Man's Wisdom For The Child's.

It Is The Goal Of The American University To Be The Brains Of The Republic.

Revolution As An Ideal Concept Always Preserves The Essential Content Of The Original Thought: Sudden And Lasting Betterment.

The Second Fundamental Feature Of Culture Is That All Culture Has An Element Of Striving.