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X (7) | Few men are Johnsons; yet how many men at this
day are assailed by incessant demands on their mental powers which
only a productiveness like his could suitably supply! There is a
demand for reckless originality of thought & a sparkling
plausibility of agreement which he would have despised even if he
could have displayed; a demand for crude theory & unsound
philosophy rather than none at all. |
X (7) | What must be the toil of those whose intellects are to be flaunted
daily before the public in full dress, & underdress ever new &
varied, & spun, like the silkworm's, out of themselves.
Merton identified with John Henry
Newman. Of Newman Merton wrote elsewhere: "There are people one
meets in books or in life whom one does not merely observe, meet, or
know. A deep resonance of one's entire being is immediately set up
with the entire being of the other (Cor ad cor
loquitur)--heart speaks to heart in the wholeness of the language
of music; true friendship is a kind of singing." :Conjectures of A Guilty Bystander. (New York: Image Books, 1968),
p. 188. |