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He arrived at Athens, however, the noble city of the intellectuals, over which brooded the sublime spirit of Plato the Plato of the gloriousness of the risk of immortality; and there Paul disputed with Epicureans and Stoics.
The word Pessimist was first flung in contempt at those who dared to express unpalatable truth. It is now accepted by a large number of intellectuals, and if to be a pessimist is to have insight, wit, calm courage, patience, persistency, and a disposition that accepts all Fate sends and makes the best of it, then pity 'tis we haven't more.
He thought only of being a spectator watching the wind rush by. But already the wind had caught him, and was dragging him along into its whirling cloud of dust. The social drama was twofold. The piece played by the intellectuals was a comedy within a comedy; the people hardly heeded it. The real drama was that of the people.
'Is it meant to raise the prestige of Russian intellectuals? 'Not a bit, said they. 'We don't let you go, simply because it is impossible for a decent man to go third. It is so vile and disgusting. 'Yes, said I. 'Thanks for taking so much trouble about decent people.
Oh, yes, they are winning over that sort, teachers and university graduates a whole group who would be called Intellectuals if they were men all doing what men have said women could never do pulling together. And, oh! that reminds me, she said suddenly, smiling as one who has thought of a capital joke at her companion's expense: 'it's my duty to warn you.
My hope is that there will be no occasion for the country to think of my present words ten years hence. The effect of Liang Ch'i-chao's appeal was noticeable at once: there were ominous mutterings among all the great class of "intellectuals" who form such a remarkable element throughout the country. Nevertheless there were no overt acts attempted against the authority of Peking.
It was a great effort for most of those brave ones to overcome their disgust at the dirt and dense ignorance they met among the peasants, who absolutely lacked comprehension of new ideas; therefore, there could be no understanding between the intellectuals, who wanted to help, and the sufferers, who needed help. These two elements were brought in closer touch through industrialism.
This category, of the Intellectuals, is sufficiently large to live its own life within itself, without drawing on the spiritual life of the community at large, and of sufficiently substantial quality to carry its own peculiar scheme of intellectual conventions and verities.
The hegemony of the petty bourgeois intellectuals meant, in reality, that the peasantry, which had suddenly been called, through the agency of the military machine, to an organized participation in political life, had, by mere weight of numbers, overshadowed the working class and temporarily dislodged it.
He argued in all superiority, upon egotistic grounds, calling these the intellectuals, and all others, creatures without brains; in which his philosophy showed some similarity to Frederick von Kammacher's new philosophy, now that Frederick had entered upon a new phase of his life.
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