Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2123

Verbatim phrases taken down by Spencer MacCallum from conversa­tion with Heath in New York City, searching for a form of letter to accompany gift copies of Citadel, Market and Altar.

May 1956

 

 

 

 

I am sending you a book with my compliments. There are ideas in it that are new and, I believe, of great timeliness. What is more, I have found pleasure in their logical symmetry and coherence

 

 

… people who see the utilitarian and yet know that in the ultimate sense the esthetic is supreme.

 

 

… /people who are/ conscious that mankind is in need of some practical technology resolving all our global woes .. and who believe that practical salvation has to have esthetic, if not to say spiritual, origin.