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...rendered helpless by a network thrown about him by "little people," confessed self-seekers and greedy opportunists. Tennyson describes his situation thus: "His honor rooted in dishonor stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." Shakespeare, the master diagnostician of mental and emotional deviations, provides the remedy: ". . . To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false...
...introduction to Maurer's book, Chinese Scholar Hu Shih remarks that this concluding piece of wisdom is very close to Immanuel Kant's doctrine of the Categorical Imperative: "So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end in itself, never as a means only." It is also very close to the wisdom of the New Testament, which, says Maurer in effect, might make a better basis for a foreign policy toward Asia than the one the West has been using for a long time...
SHAKES. These words are mine, not thine...
Thou shalt not worship projects nor Shalt thou or thine bow down before
...Video Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). To Thine Own Self, with Melvyn Douglas...