If we are always standing back, keeping the world at a distance to analyze, categorize, and quantify its parts, then we will forever be in the position of looking “at” the beam. And if that is the case, then we will lack the spiritual resource of the “heart,” which must aid the reason to make for a fully-formed human being. But modern education divorces the heart and mind, and the consequences are fatal, literally: “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked
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