The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.
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