Thobbing : a seat at the circus of the intellect / by Henshaw Ward.

  • Ward, C. H. (Charles Henshaw), 1872-1935
Date:
[1926], ©1926
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Credit: Thobbing : a seat at the circus of the intellect / by Henshaw Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He expresses hate of American education in terms like these—I try to quote fair samples: “The uni¬ versity [i. e., universities in general] becomes a center of propaganda for every form of class greed and cruelty. . . . Judge Gary fed his pious poison. . . . Secretary of War Weeks gave a boost to the liq¬ uor lobby. . . . Just now the rich are having it all their way; they can do the killing and the bludgeoning and the jailing. ... I have called the American college and university a ruling-class muni¬ tion-factory for the manufacture of high-explosive shells and gas-bombs to be used in the service of in¬ trenched greed and cruelty. Our educational system today is in the hands of reason’s last organized enemy, which is class greed and selfishness based upon economic privilege.” Our intellectual radicals honor him by saying: “Oh, he is an extremist, and of course I don’t pre¬ tend that he envisages the whole problem clearly; but I contend that there is a good deal of truth in what he says.” A good deal of truth—and where will you find a more false and muddy way of trying to be open-minded! There is a good deal of truth in any statement that was ever printed—just as there is “a good deal of health” in every human body that is hopelessly ill, or “a good deal of dryness” in the spaces between the molecules of water. There is a good deal of truth in the statement that the moon is made of green cheese—thus: both the moon and a hunk of cheese are largely composed of carbon atoms. But what about the honest-to-goodness, horse-sense truth of statements that the moon is made of cheese or that a sick man is well or that we can remove greed from society!