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...this would be fine if it were working properly. But the great contention of Miss Rand's book is that it is not. Ever since the encroachment of eighteenth and nineteenth century mistrust of the infallibility of pure reason (Kant is not very popular with Miss Rand: "those who accept any part of Kant's philosophy deserve it"), the intellectuals have sold out the rest of the world's producers, primarily the businessman. America today, she feels, is culturally bankrupt, a country without any intellectual leadership. It must be the duty of the new intellectuals (i.e., "any man or woman...
Both Time and Newsweek have used the statement. In Time, it was one of a number of items used as a takeoff for a plea to abandon the "nineteenth century concept" of non-intervention. According to one of the writers of the statement, the article is "a misrepresentation of our position." Newsweek devoted is full article to the statement, its main point being that Harvard was pitted against Harvard...
...contrast to the theme of hope and confidence in America which characterized the primers of the nineteenth century, modern texts are concerned with "consumer" stories. "A story ends happily," Henry said, "when every body gets what they want...
Rosenberg's investigation of the stereotypes which the nineteenth century produced is the heart of his book. He discusses the novels of Scott, Dickens, Trollope, Bulwer, and Eliot with wit and insight which manage to alleviate the depressing similarity of the characters he discusses and the dullness of many of the books...
Edgar Rosenberg is Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English at Harvard. Since coming to Harvard from Stanford University, where he did his graduate study, he taught writing courses and courses in nineteenth century English literature...