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...antiscience, anti-intellectual crusade could do profound damage in this country. There is bound to be-and there is indeed-trouble between intellectual principles and any government of a great modern state. The governments deal with terrible responsibilities of the here and now. The intellectual deals with truths that transcend national boundaries...
...life, never more than treetop height above the earth's surface. In the upper reaches of the atmosphere or in the airless space beyond, man is as much out of his element as a mackerel marching across the Sahara. But unlike the mackerel, man is determined to transcend his environment. He reaches for the stars. A short half-century after the Wright brothers skittered over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk aircraft now on the designers' boards will fly at heights of 100,000 to 125,000 ft. Man (Major Arthur Murray) has already flown...
...three historical kinds of character direction, some men will adjust, some will fail to adjust and some will rise above adjustments. Those who fail he calls anomic (ruleless, directionless); the years of transition between two kinds of direction (inner and other) will produce many anomics. Those who transcend adjustment he calls autonomous. Their social radar is good and they use it when they choose; but they can turn it off and develop the ability to make choices out of their own individuality...
Neither Eakins nor Homer cared a rap for the quality thought indispensable in Europe: art which conceals art. They achieved something rarer: honesty which may transcend art. The heart of summer, the gleam of flesh against green foliage, are conveyed in Eakins' Swimming Hole. And a man looking at Snap the Whip can remember what it felt like to get out of school and run barefoot on the grass...
...Male-man," argues Simone de Beauvoir, is relatively lucky. He has raised himself by the bootstraps from the gutter of nonentity to the dignity of "human being ; he may, at will, transcend even this and rise to the stature of an "existent." But woman's uplift has barely begun. Far from being an existent, she is not even a human being yet. She is a "lie" and a "treason" to her own reality, because she is "in large part man's invention." Her plight in a man-made world is summed up in two of Author de Beauvoir...