Our Beloved Humanities
“Our ‘benefactors’ are, more than our enemies, people who make our worth and will smaller. When people try to benefit someone in distress, the intellectual frivolity with which those moved by pity assume the role of fate is for the most part outrageous; one simply knows nothing of the whole inner sequence and intricacies that are distress for me or for you.” —Nietzsche Following the recent exchange of ideas between Michael Clune, on the one side, and Pomona College President