The Tradition Of The New. Yesterday's Avant-gard-experiment

To The Reactionary Ear Every Whispered Criticism Of The Elite Classes Has Always Sounded Like The Opening Shot Of An Uprising.

To Be Sick And Helpless Is A Humiliating Experience. Prolonged Illness Also Carries The Hazard Of Narcissistic Self-absorption.

A University Is Not A Service Station. Neither Is It A Political Society, Nor A Meeting Place For Political Societies. With All Its Limitations And Failures, And They Are Invariably Many, It Is The Best And Most Benign Side Of Our Society Insofar As That Society Aims To Cherish The Human Mind.

If For Every Error And Every Act Of Incompetence One Can Substitute An Act Of Treason, Many Points Of Fascinating Interpretation Are Open To The Paranoid Imagination.

It Is The Historic Glory Of The Intellectual Class Of The West In Modern Times That, Of All The Classes Which Could Be Called In Any Sense Privileged, It Has Shown The Largest And Most Consistent Concern For The Well-being Of The Classes Which Lie Below It In The Social Scale.