Low Flight of Reason

not of the Word, of the word. So it may be that such books as this, uneven as it is, will come to have value we have not thought on. But the greatest hope lies in the artists who will maintain the image of what makes the South a distinct and perhaps lasting way of life.

Mr. Wilder addressed himself to the problem of culture in the democratic society of the future. Pointing out that the arts in the past flourished under the patronage of “rulers, aristocrats, ecclesiastical hierarchies and elites,” he went on to insist that this patronage bred the conviction that God gave to the few the role of guarding the cultural patrimony of the race. This strengthened the persuasion that only elites were capable of governing. God was worshipped as a father, and the father of every family participated in a borrowed divinity.

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Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

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not of the Word, of the word. So it may be that such books as this, uneven as it is, will come to have value we have not thought on. But the greatest hope lies in the artists who will maintain the image of what makes the South a distinct and perhaps lasting way of life.

Mr. Wilder addressed himself to the problem of culture in the democratic society of the future. Pointing out that the arts in the past flourished under the patronage of “rulers, aristocrats, ecclesiastical hierarchies and elites,” he went on to insist that this patronage bred the conviction that God gave to the few the role of guarding the cultural patrimony of the race. This strengthened the persuasion that only elites were capable of governing. God was worshipped as a father, and the father of every family participated in a borrowed divinity.