What a sordid Vanity Fair is our modern Civilization!
James Beck: “What a sordid Vanity Fair is our modern Civilization!”
Editor's note · Context
Beck expresses a critical view of modern civilization, likening it to a superficial and materialistic fair.
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That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.





