There Is No Real Education That Does

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.

Reason Cannot Establish Values, And Its Belief That It Can Is The Stupidest And Most Pernicious Illusion.

Historicism And Cultural Relativism Actually Are A Means To Avoid Testing Our Own Prejudices And Asking, For Example, Whether Men Are Really Equal Or Whether That Opinion Is Merely A Democratic Prejudice.

It May Well Be That A Societys Greatest Madness Seems Normal To Itself.

The De-eroticization Of The World, A Companion To Its Disenchantment ... Seems To Result From A Combination Of Causes Our Democratic Regime And Its Tendencies Toward Leveling And Self-protection, A Reductionist-materialist Science That Inevitably Interprets Eros As Sex, And The Atmosphere Generated By "the Death Of God" And Of The Subordinate God, Eros.