Simple English Is No One’s Mother Tongue.

The Ascetic Is Often A Sensualist Who Has Reached The Limit Of His Capacity.

Can An Idea A Notion As Abstract As Relativism Produce By Itself The Effects Alleged? Cause All The Harm, Destroy All The Lives And Reputations? I Am As Far As Anyone Can Be From Denying The Power Of Ideas In History, But The Suggestion That A Philosophy (as Relativism Is Often Called) Has Perverted Millions And Debased Daily Life Is On The Face Of It Absurd. No Idea Working Alone Has Ever Demoralized Society, And There Have Been Plenty Of Ideas Simpler And More Exciting Than Relativism.

Whoever Wants To Know The Heart And Mind Of America Had Better Learn Baseball, The Rules And Realities Of The Game - And Do It By Watching First Some High School Or Small-town Teams.

Criticism Will Need An Injection Of Humility That Is, A Recognition Of Its Role As Ancillary To The Arts, Needed Only Occasionally In A Temporary Capacity. Since The Critic Exists Only For Introducing And Explaining, He Must Be Readily Intelligible; He Has No Special Vocabulary: Criticism Is In No Way A Science Or A System.

Among The Words That Can Be All Things To All Men, The Word "race" Has A Fair Claim To Being The Most Common, Most Ambiguous And Most Explosive. No One Today Would Deny That It Is One Of The Great Catchwords About Which Ink And Blood Are Spilled In Reckless Quantities. Yet No Agreement Seems To Exist About What Race Means.