[This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald]@TWC D-Link bookThis Side of Paradise CHAPTER 5 31/54
Now this spiritually unmarried man hasn't direct power, for unfortunately the spiritually married man, as a by-product of his money chase, has garnered in the great newspaper, the popular magazine, the influential weekly--so that Mrs.Newspaper, Mrs.Magazine, Mrs.Weekly can have a better limousine than those oil people across the street or those cement people 'round the corner." "Why not ?" "It makes wealthy men the keepers of the world's intellectual conscience and, of course, a man who has money under one set of social institutions quite naturally can't risk his family's happiness by letting the clamor for another appear in his newspaper." "But it appears," said the big man. "Where ?--in the discredited mediums.
Rotten cheap-papered weeklies." "All right--go on." "Well, my first point is that through a mixture of conditions of which the family is the first, there are these two sorts of brains.
One sort takes human nature as it finds it, uses its timidity, its weakness, and its strength for its own ends.
Opposed is the man who, being spiritually unmarried, continually seeks for new systems that will control or counteract human nature.
His problem is harder.
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