Every Age Is Blind To Its Own

Our Nation, A Great Stage For The Acting Out Of Great Thoughts, Presents The Classic Confrontation Between Locke's Views Of The State Of Nature And Rousseau's Criticism Of Them... Nature Is Raw Material, Worthless Without The Mixture Of Human Labor; Yet Nature Is Also The Highest And Most Sacred Thing. The Same People Who Struggle To Save The Snail-darter Bless The Pill, Worry About Hunting Deer And Defend Abortion. Reverence For Nature, Mastery Of Nature- Whichever Is Convenient.

Plato Says A Multitude Can Never Philosophize And Hence Can Never Recognize The Seriousness Of Philosophy Or Who Really Philosophizes. Attempting To Influence The Multitude Results In Forced Prostitution.

We Are Like Ignorant Shepherds Living On A Site Where Great Civilizations Once Flourished.

As Western Nations Became More Prosperous, Leisure, Which Had Been Put Off For Several Centuries In Favor Of The Pursuit Of Property, The Means To Leisure, Finally Began To Be Of Primary Concern. But, In The Meantime, Any Notion Of The Serious Life Of Leisure, As Well As Men's Taste And Capacity To Live It, Had Disappeared.

Never Did I Think That The University Was Properly Ministerial To The Society Around It. Rather I Thought And Think That Society Is Ministerial To The University, And I Bless A Society That Tolerates And Supports An Eternal Childhood For Some, A Childhood Whose Playfulness Can In Turn Be A Blessing To Society.