Great Talents Have Some Admirers, But Few

We Have Previously Suggested That Philanthropy Combines Genuine Pity With The Display Of Power And That The Latter Element Explains Why The Powerful Are More Inclined To Be Generous Than To Grant Social Justice.

Not Only In America But In Germany, In France Since The War, In Germany After The First World War, The Germany Of Adenauer, These Are The Creative Relationships Of Catholicism To A Free Society That The Average American Doesn't Fully Appreciate.

Now When The Historic Religions Give Trivial Answers To These Very Tragic Questions Of Our Day, When An Evangelist Says, For Instance, We Mustn't Hope For A Summit Meeting, We Must Hope In Christ Without Spelling Out What This Could Mean In Our Particular Nuclear Age. This Is The Irrelevant Answer, When Another Evangelist Says If America Doesn't Stop Being Selfish, It Will Be Doomed. This Is Also A Childish Answer Because Nations Are Selfish And The Question About America Isn't Whether We Will Be Selfish Or Unselfish, But Will We Be Sufficiently Imaginative To Pass The Reciprocal Trade Acts.

Our Age Knows Nothing But Reaction, And Leaps From One Extreme To Another.

The More Complex The World Situation Becomes, The More Scientific And Rational Analysis You Have To Have, The Less You Can Do With Simple Good Will And Sentiment.