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...decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with oil; and the mouths of the preachers and the prophets have been stopped with gold . . . Where virtue reigned on a scale which some may have thought exaggerated, wealth has become the only criterion of merit . . . The common thief still forfeits his hand, the common adulterer his head, but the higher spheres of society, where speculation and vice are practiced on an impressive scale, live their lives in their own way with complete immunity from censure or sanctions. In a recent case, indeed, a respectable member...
Buckley agreed with Wechsler on this point, but said that quality, not quantity of readership, is the true criterion of an author's impact. "Drew Pearson certainly has more readers than Alfred North Whitehead ever had, but who will say Pearson has more effect on our society...
What an appalling display of fuzzy thinking in some of the world's leading editorial comment! The moral law as defined in the New Testament still stands as our civilization's highest criterion, no matter how outmoded some people may feel it has become...
...casual reader this article may sound one-sided. But most CRIMSON readers do not need to be convinced on the basis evils of white supremacy or the inherent equality of all races. On these racial questions however, they do need to apply the same criterion to propaganda put out by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as they would to any other interest group's, and to lend the South's position the same consideration they give to the Other side in any History of Government course...
...couple of years later, when T. S. Eliot was lecturing at Harvard, Theodore Spencer showed him a Levin essay on the metaphysical poets which Eliot liked so much that he decided to publish it in his influential literary magazine, The Criterion...