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with problems involved in the discipline of "the Inner Self." The
many questionable assumptions behind his distinction between "the
inward" and "the outward" are undoubtedly the rock bottom premises
from which he thinks, but this is hardly the place to consider them.
It
is worth noting, however, that according to him education should
aim among other things; at "the discipline and encouragement of
discriminating sensitivity to the best values which speak, or may speak,
within men's hearts." Which values, and in what manner are they
to be judged "best"? Men's hearts "speak" differently in different
climes and at different tiiTI;es, and one cannot simply take the fact that
values are "spoken" as evidence that they are valid or even compatible
with one another. But on this crucial point Mr. Wheelwright wraps
his wisdom in an aristocratic silence.
THESE PURISTS
Lovely! all the essential parts,
like an oyster without a shell
fresh and sweet tasting, to be
swallowed, chewed and swallowed.
Or better, a brain without a
skull. I remember once a guy in
our anatomy class dropped one
from the third floor window on
an organ grinder in Pine Street.
W.
C.
WILLIAMS
