“Do you know what third-and fourth-rate intellectuals are? They’re professors of philology and organic chemistry at the minor universities, they’re founders and honorary presidents of the Nuneaton Poetry Society and the Baron’s Court Debating Society; they’re the people that organize and sedulously attend all those Conferences for promoting international goodwill and the spread of culture that are perpetually held at Budapest and Prague and Stockholm. Admirable and indispensable creatures, of course. But impossibly dreary; one simply cannot have any relations with them. And how virtuously they disapprove of those who have something better to do than disseminate culture and goodwill-those of us who are concerned with creating beauty-like me; or like you, my child, in deliciously being beauty.”
Aldous Huxley, “After the Fireworks”, 1930
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