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is formed of both these currents, and while also we must continuously
enlighten the Enlightenment by its counter-movement, I think that it is
to the Enlightenment we must, in the end, give primacy.
I am aware that in these last few paragraphs I may seem to have
passed from disputant to collaborator with Mr. Trilling, and I should of
course be happy
if
he accepted my collaboration on these complex and
difficult questions-though within the limits I indicate above. Mr. Tril–
ling may disagree with me that he was thinking of these questions I have
raised, but of course I have not been trying to read his mind but only
to see what is objectively and
logically
behind his remarks; he might
also disagree with me that these are questions that will have to
be
ex–
plicity faced for any further exploration of the liberal mind; but I do
not think he will disagree with me that they are important questions,
on which, sooner or later, we shall all have to be committed one way
or another.
William Barrett
