Susceptibility To The Highest Forces Is The

The New American, Like The New European, Was The Servant Of The Powerhouse, As The European Of The Twelfth Century Was The Servant Of The Church.

The President May Indeed In One Respect Resemble The Commander Of An Army In Peace, But In Another And More Essential Sense He Resembles The Commander Of A Ship At Sea. He Must Have A Helm To Grasp, A Course To Steer, A Port To Seek. He Must Sooner Or Later Be Convinced That A Perpetual Calm Is As Little To His Purpose As A Perpetual Hurricane, And That Without Headway The Ship Can Arrive Nowhere.

The Habit Of Expression Leads To The Search For Something To Express. Something Remains As A Residuum Of The Commonplace Itself, If One Strikes Out Every Commonplace In The Expression.

As History Stands, It Is A Sort Of Chinese Play, Without End And Without Lesson.

The Gothic Is Singular In This; One Seems Easily At Home In The Renaissance; One Is Not Too Strange In The Byzantine; As For The Roman, It Is Ourselves; And We Could Walk Blindfolded Through Every Chink And Cranny Of The Greek Mind; All These Styles Seem Modern When We Come Close To Them; But The Gothic Gets Away.