The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent
THE
MORAL OBLIGATION
TO BE INTELLIGENT
and Other Essays
BY
JOHN ERSKINE, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK
DUFFIELD AND COMPANY
MCMXV
Copyright, 1915, by
DUFFIELD AND COMPANY
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent | 3 |
| The Call to Service | 35 |
| The Mind of Shakspere | 73 |
| Magic and Wonder in Literature | 119 |
NOTE
The title essay, originally read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Amherst College, is reprinted with the editor's courteous permission from the Hibbert Journal. The last essay also was read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Amherst College, and before the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni of New York City.
In different ways the four essays set forth one theme—the moral use to which intelligence might be put, in rendering our admirations and our loyalties at once more sensible and more noble.
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