LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

heart and azure man with his sky in heart is a sign for Amencans. I hope
you won’t lose it. As to the direct vision, that is the painter’s genius, it is
the genius of Cummings. Few men could have gone into Russia and not
be beaten by ideology.
Now what do you know of Russia? If you are studious, you know what
you read in— —and the— —for example, and— —you have learned
from, etc., but since then what record? There is one record available in
both American and English readers today, namely, that made by E.E.
Cummings. It may be too late for you really to use it, but you want to
live also to morrow, perhaps not. At any rate, if you want to live, even
today, you better read it. You better learn what Roosevelt and Atlee and
Cripps are importing into America, into England, and what has already
been dumped into America, with the horse of a— —shock troops,
bubolic plague in the— —. Whether America, whether the American
heritage was an invasion, what invasions in person in the— —
Bolshevised immigrants. What racial invasion, what invasions of
American ideology? Not only from Russia, there are Dr. Freud’s
imported stinks, not a Slavic invasion, or not a Slavic invasion only
— —. And the azure hearts of America threaten, and how, oh, yes,
threaten the New England heritage (present).
I emphasized this book among other things because you have so few
books available, and what you have are in part unhandy. You won’t read
John Adams’ ten volumes, they aren’t handy. You have not read Brooks
Adams, you could read him.]
Some of you have a vague suspicion as to what controls your press and
your radio. Few have any concept of what runs your university endow
ments. Most of ’em generous, most of ’em honest in intention, partly
from vanity, from sense of magnificence, from desire to hand some of it
back. The magnanimity is in most cases unquestioned, but the
OVERHEAD and the effects of overhead were not thought of.