Sublime

Since it is now clear that a certain amount of stability is necessary for cultural vibrancy, the question to be asked is: how can this stability be provided, and by what agencies?

‘David stares into the fire wondering whether to vote Labour or Conservative’, as the audience have no way of inferring that.

It is that the group who were to become Bloomsbury had already accepted the values of Moore’s sixth chapter, but could not accept these as merely their own personal preferences. They felt the need to find objective and impersonal justification for rejecting all claims except those of personal intercourse and of the beautiful.

have to commit yourself to the manifesto your party has adopted, usually somewhere along a spectrum that ranges, in Macaulay’s language, from reckless empiricism at one end to ignorant bigotry at the other. Or to put it in more temperate language, between those who find change and experiment seductive and those who find it repellent, the old

claiming that “a small minority of beatniks, radicals, and filthy speech advocates have brought such shame to a great university.” A year later, Nixon attacked university activism as “elitist” and “morally relativist.”