Lionel Trilling Quote

Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.


Manners, Morals and the Novel - The Liberal Imagination (1950)


Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the...

Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the...

Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the...

Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the...