The Northampton Seminar
Peter Wood
I see no reason to get in high dudgeon over this, but it does strike me that Schiller is giving voice to a self-flattery mythology, and one that is easily recognizable. It is the mythology that intellectuals are, by their nature, “liberal,” and that conservatives are by their nature anti-intellectual, opposed to the “pursuit of knowledge,” ignorant of the larger world (e.g. Egypt), and disinclined to support the institutions of higher learning. This is a thesis, and it is either true or false. It happens to be false, and its falsity is pretty much manifest as soon as it is stated plainly.
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