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...make saints infallible. When their intellectual outlook is narrow, they fall into all sorts of holy excesses, fanaticisms or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability to meet the world. By the very intensity of his fidelity to the paltry ideals with which an inferior intellect may inspire him, a saint can be even more objectionable and damnable than a superficial carnal man would be in the same situation. We must judge him not sentimentally only, and not in isolation, but using our own intellectual standards, placing him in his environment, and estimating his total function...
Exotic and Erotic. Throughout the history of art there have been such painters of intellect, but there have always been, too, those who paint only with passion. Had Delacroix not been the illegitimate son of the influential Talleyrand, he might not have had so easy a time getting his work shown, and even so, he shocked as well as awed. Battles intrigued him, massacres fascinated him, the combination of blood and splendor, of luxury and pain, seemed to inspire him. In his mind, he traveled over India and the Near East, filling it full of glittering jewels, gilded swords, muscular...
...makes no difference what pretensions the philosopher may parade as to the coersive nature of his arguments. Whatever principles he may reason from, and whatever logic he may follow, he is at bottom an advocate pleading to a brief handed over to his intellect by the peculiarities of his nature and the influences in his history that have moulded his imagination. William James...
Casting a magisterial eye at the whole sweep and scope of the U.S. university, California's President Clark Kerr last week spied "an institution unique in world history"-a city of intellect that is not really private and not really public, neither entirely of the world nor entirely apart from it. In delivering this year's annual Godkin Lectures at Harvard, Kerr gave this institution a new name: "the multiversity"-a cluster of sub-universities spouting ideas at a time when "knowledge has never been so central to the conduct of an entire society...
Such groupings consist of multiversities merging with the "knowledge industry" all around, forming a new "Ideopolis." The result is "an extraordinarily productive environment," says Kerr-one that puts the multiversity squarely in the life of society rather than being an inward-looking "house of intellect." The multiversity cannot go back: "Knowledge is wanted, even demanded, by more people than ever before. Knowledge today is for everybody's sake...