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...light of the events and disclosures of the past few years. That classes, private property and the rest must inevitably be transformed into world-wide rule of the workers they accept almost unquestioningly. The average reader, however, who has not yet come to such complete acceptance of the communist ideal, is somewhat be wildered, perhaps aggravated, by the broad assumptions which form the foundation of the wonder building to be erected through the uncompromising method of creative revolution...
...work is dedicated to Lenin, and the reader is made to feel that he is the man of action who has carried into practice the theory of Karl Marx. Instead of treating communism as a demon, vague and much to be abhorred, "Creative Revolution" accepts it as the ideal reality which must soon establish itself throughout the world...
Many think of West Point as a machine for the production of professional soldiers. This betrays ignorance of the facts. While training at the Academy fits men especially for the various phases of the military profession, it has as its basic ideal good citizenship. Besides his study of military affairs, the cadet is instructed in those subjects making for a well-rounded mind, which is the first essential for successful citizenship. The extent of the Point's success in achieving its military purpose, which the report specifies as: "--to give to all cadets a broad conception of all the branches...
...want an ideal that will unite all Harvard men? Yes, of course we want it; but we need not seek it in those places where standards are just emerging from the chaos of educational invention. We have it here in that subtle influence of tradition that no man can escape, no matter how callous; we have it in the common belief that as Harvard men we can contribute to American culture the particular qualities of the University and its environment. Perhaps this is a sort of provincialism; but I prefer a vital provincialism to an emasculated nationalism...
...sufficient. It may be a unity that penetrates every man, but it is a wholly ineffective sort of loyalty. Here we allow a man to work out his own salvation: let every man find for himself some social group, some intellectual niche where he fits in, some ideal that Yuspires him. Yet, wherever he is finally placed he cannot help being impregnated with the mellow reality that New England represents; nor can he help seeing in the serenity of Harvard a good deal more than mere smugness...