“With the hidden hatred of sustained intellectual effort, [the evangelist of practicalism] encourages whose who happen to listen to him in the name of reasonableness to dispense with reason.”

—  Eliseo Vivas

The Moral Life and the Ethical Life (Chicago: 1950), p. 4

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