The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent - And Other Essays #251000

This question is neither original nor very new. Our times await the reckon ing up of our spiritual goods which is here suggested. We have at least this wisdom, that many of us are curious to know just what our Virtues are. I wish I could Ofier myself as the wise man who brings the answer. But I raise this question merely to ask another — When the wise man brings his list Of our genuine admirations, will intelligence be one of them? We might seem to be well within the Old ideal of modesty if we claimed the virtue of intelligence. But before we claim the Virtue, are we convinced that it is a vir tue, not a peril?