Word: highet
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Columbia Professor Gilbert Highet and Adrian Conan Doyle discussing The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...
...pleased that you reported Professor Highet's remarks in the Nov. 12 issue . . . Mr. Highet regards Caesar as "a crook and a traitor" because he believes in political liberty and dreads the appearance in this country of a man of Caesar's intelligence and ambition. Dante regarded Caesar as the savior of the temporal world and the human counterpart of the divine Christ, because Dante believed in a world state, abhorred the misery caused by international wars, and had himself experienced the brutal anarchy of the Italian democracies...
Some of Mr. Highet's contemporaries, a little more pessimistic than I, regard Caesar as the noblest of patriots because they see in the Roman republic of Caesar's day and in the American republic of today a hopeless corruption. Disgusted with the ignorant and brutal clowns who are today performing in all parts of the world, they hope that it will be our good fortune to have at last a master as intelligent, as cultivated and as clement as Caesar . . . The real Caesar was known only to Caesar, but it is the mark of the very greatest...
...GILBERT HIGHET...
Concluded Highet: "I want us to teach that even these 'classic' men were subject to human conflicts and pressures. I don't want to debunk them . . . I don't believe in the late-'20s school of showing Jefferson as a bungling dilettante, or Washington as an ignorant country squire. That's all nonsense. These were all great men, greater than you or I. But I want to keep them from being statues. That's what they've become from bad teaching...