LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Constitution which even the ordinary American citizen is expected to
take every time he gets a new passport.
It was obviously a mere question of hours, between that day and hour,
and the time when the United States of America would be legally at war
with the Axis.
I spent a month tryin’ to figure things out, well did I, perhaps I
concluded sooner. At any rate I had a month clear to make up my mind
about some things. I had Confucius and Mencius, both of whom had
been up against similar problems. Both of whom had seen empires
fallin’. Both of whom had seen deeper into the causes of human
confusion than most men even think of lookin’.
Then there was my old dad in bed with a broken hip; Lord knows who is
going to mend it or whether it will mend. So—I read him a few pages of
Aristotle in the Loeb Classical Library, English version, to take his mind
off it. Also to keep my own work in progress.
Because for some time I have had in mind the need of comparing the
terminology of Chinese and Greek philosphy, and also comparing that
with the terminology of mediaevil Catholic theology.
No. For a man cut off from all his NORMAL contacts with the non-
European world, I can’t say I was destitute—mentally—there was plenty
lyin’ there for me to be busy about, if I had wanted to “contract OUT.” If
I had wanted to go into a funk hole, I had a nice sizeable funk hole.
About as good as an endowed professorship in one of our otiose or
veiled, shall we say veiled universities, or even Oxford or Cambridge.
Plenty of muckers down there settin’ pretty, and drawin’ 5000 dollars or
ten thousand a year for not tellin’. I reckon it is Mencius who thought
that “the true sage seeks not repose.”