Anti-intellectualism in American LifeVintage Books, 1963 - 434 pages |
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... character , because it is widely believed that intellect stands for mere cleverness , which transmutes easily into the sly or the diabolical . ' It is pitted against practicality , since theory is held to be opposed to practice , and ...
... character , because it is widely believed that intellect stands for mere cleverness , which transmutes easily into the sly or the diabolical . ' It is pitted against practicality , since theory is held to be opposed to practice , and ...
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... character over intellect in politics and life , and the all but universal tendency to assume that the two somehow stand in opposition to each other . His writings continually return to this contrast : " Character is far more important ...
... character over intellect in politics and life , and the all but universal tendency to assume that the two somehow stand in opposition to each other . His writings continually return to this contrast : " Character is far more important ...
Page 255
... character that would succeed . The conception of character advocated by the self - help writers and the self - made men explicitly excluded what they loosely called genius . No doubt there was a certain underlying ambivalence in this ...
... character that would succeed . The conception of character advocated by the self - help writers and the self - made men explicitly excluded what they loosely called genius . No doubt there was a certain underlying ambivalence in this ...
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Antiintellectualism in Our Time | 3 |
On the Unpopularity of Intellect | 24 |
The Evangelical Spirit Bཚ | 55 |
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