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Americans ... Do Not Naturally Apply The Term "bourgeois" To Themselves, Or To Anyone Else For That Matter. They Do Like To Call Themselves Middle Class, But That Does Not Carry With It Any Determinate Spiritual Content. ... The Term "middle Class" Does Not Have Any Of The Many Opposites That Bourgeois Has, Such As Aristocrat, Saint, Hero, Or Artist - All Good.

Historicism And Cultural Relativism Actually Are A Means To Avoid Testing Our Own Prejudices And Asking, For Example, Whether Men Are Really Equal Or Whether That Opinion Is Merely A Democratic Prejudice.

Children Tend To Be Rather Better Observers Of Adults' Characters Than Adults Are Of Children's, Because Children Are So Dependent On Adults That It Is Very Much In Their Interest To Discover The Weaknesses Of Their Elders.

It Is Easy Today To Deny God's Creativity As A Thing Of The Benighted Past, Overcome By Science, But Man's Creativity, A Thing Much More Improbable And Nothing But An Imitation Of God's, Exercises A Strange Attraction.

Self-interest Is Hostile To The Common Good, But Enlightened Self-interest Is Not. And This Is The Best Key To The Meaning Of Enlightenment.