Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spender, in 1942, is a poetical miniature of the English literary Left-a small man wearing a large suit of clothes. He subscribes to the great English poetic tradition that a poet is a being superior to his fellows in wisdom, human tenderness, beauty of perception, the power of inspiring in others a love of the good. To him the maintenance of this tradition is a spiritual necessity. But also he is bound by the need to live the life of a wide-awake modern man. Spender tries hard to reconcile these two modes of life. His failure...
...privilege of release. Similarly, those who live in terror or in destitution, even though no specific control is placed upon their speech, are as good as gagged. There can be no people's rule unless there is talk... words, ideas in a never-ending stream, from the enduring wisdom of the great and the good to puniest thought troubling the feeblest brain. All are listened to, all add up to something and we call it the rule of the people...
...aren't getting lay leadership. And just the other day Walter Lippmann, discussing that professor who wrote the piece in Collier's about cutting and assembling a new democratic world, said "he [the professor] is the product of an academic system in which the study of moral wisdom has been abandoned." I, as a fairly normal American, agree wholeheartedly...
...almost certain answer is that he is the product of an academic system in which the study of moral wisdom has been abandoned. It turns out reformers without moral restraint, humanitarians without human respect, philanthropists without philosophy, and enthusiasts without religion...
...least brought discussion of the post-war world down to earth. In the race to write the peace, or even to teach the American people how to write it, the only maps of a future world in existence were those of the geopoliticos; the men of moral wisdom had not yet drawn theirs...