Universities Incline Wits To Sophistry And Affectation.

An Artist Has Every Right - One May Even Say A Duty - To Exhibit His Productions As Prominently As He Can.

On Reflection, Moral Judgment In The Arts Appears Rather As A Tribute To Their Power To Influence Emotion And Possibly Conduct. And Reflecting Further On What Some Critics Do Today, One Sees That A Good Many Have Merely Shifted The Ground Of Their Moralism, Transferring Their Impulse Of Righteousness To Politics And Social Issues.

To Watch A Football Game Is To Be In A Prolonged Neurotic Doubt As To What You're Seeing. It's More Like An Emergency Happening At A Distance Than A Game. I Don't Wonder The Spectators Take To Drink.

We Are Accustomed To The Artist Scoundrel Or Specialist In Vice, And Unaccustomed To The Creator In Whom Passion And Reason And Moral Integrity Hold In Balance. But Greatness Of Intellect And Feeling, Or Soul And Conduct - Magnanimity, In Short - Does Occur; It Is Not A Myth For Boy Scouts, And Its Reality Is Important, If Only To Give Us The True Range Of The Term "human," Which We So Regularly Define By Its Lower Reaches.

Since In Every European Country Between 1870 And 1914 There Was A War Party Demanding Armaments, An Individualist Party Demanding Ruthless Competition, An Imperialist Party Demanding A Free Hand Over Backward Peoples, A Socialist Party Demanding The Conquest Of Power And A Racialist Party Demanding Internal Purges Against Aliens - All Of Them, When Appeals To Greed And Glory Failed, Invoked Spencer And Darwin, Which Was To Say Science Incarnate.