The Failure To Read Good Books Both

University Convention Submerges Nature. It Issues Licenses, And Hunting Without One Is Forbidden.

We Are Like Ignorant Shepherds Living On A Site Where Great Civilizations Once Flourished. The Shepherds Play With The Fragments That Pop Up To The Surface, Having No Notion Of The Beautiful Structures Of Which They Were Once A Part.

The Failure To Read Good Books Both Enfeebles The Vision And Strengthens Our Most Fatal Tendency - The Belief That The Here And Now Is All There Is.

I Am Now Even More Persuaded Of The Urgent Need To Study Why Socrates Was Accused. The Dislike Of Philosophy Is Perennial, And The Seeds Of The Condemnation Of Socrates Are Present At All Times, Not In The Bosoms Of Pleasure-seekers, Who Don't Give A Damn, But In Those Of High-minded And Idealistic Persons Who Do Not Want To Submit Their Aspirations To Examination.

This Nation's Impulse Is Toward The Future, And Tradition Seems More Of A Shackle To It Than An Inspiration.