"The conditions of American society do not encourage manly responsibility and moral courage in men, and we simply do not know how to use the tenderness and motherliness of women. The present disposition of the radical young is to treat males and females alike: in my observation, this means that the women become mere camp-followers, the opposite of the suburban situation in which they are tyrannical dolls. I do not know the answer."

~ Like a Conquered Province, 1965, chapter 2: "Counter-Forces for a Decent Society"

"It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation and craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, and we have it available as our own. "

Goodman (source not noted)


McGrath, thank you for reminding me of Goodman. I had clean forget in my long journey into Bobohood what a clear and poignant voice he had.


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