Principles and Heresies

Moral Coexistence

Reading the March issue of Encounter, I was impressed to the point of shock by the unlikely conjuncture of two articles which together startlingly manifest the progressive corrosion of Western intelligence by relativism and ethical neutralism. Both showed a total absence of the intellectual ability to make distinctions and differentiations, and the unhappy disappearance of any sentiment of just pride and firm belief in the inheritance and civilization of the West.