Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1814

Pencil draft of inscription of gift copy of Citadel, Market & Altar to Judith N. Shklar, plus a jotting presumably inspired by her book.

No date

To Judith N. Shklar with admiration for her prodigious scholarship and as constructive epilogue to her so richly documented review of “intellectual” irrationality and political

futility.

/See also original of Item 1815/

The 18th-century Enlightenment guided the natural sciences into their modern noonday of human betterment and longer life. In none but the social has it failed.

Twin delusions:  Faith in magic and in force of arms (politics) — futile means towards favored ends.