The Humanities Need To Be Defended Today

A Man Needs To Look, Not Down, But Up To Standards Set So Much Above His Ordinary Self As To Make Him Feel That He Is Himself Spiritually The Underdog.

Yet Aristotle's Excellence Of Substance, So Far From Being Associated With The Grand Style, Is Associated With Something That At Times Comes Perilously Near Jargon.

The Papacy Again, Representing The Traditional Unity Of European Civilization, Has Also Shown Itself Unable To Limit Effectively The Push Of Nationalism.

The Ultimate Binding Element In The Medieval Order Was Subordination To The Divine Will And Its Earthly Representatives, Notably The Pope.

Inasmuch As Society Cannot Go On Without Discipline Of Some Kind, Men Were Constrained, In The Absence Of Any Other Form Of Discipline, To Turn To Discipline Of The Military Type.