We have now made the serene spaces of the upper Heavens our media to transmit market reports and sporting news, second-rate music and worse oratory and in the meantime the great masters of thought, Homer and Shakespeare, Bach and Beethoven remain unbidden on our library shelves.
This quote illustrates Beck's concern about the trivialization of culture in the face of modern technology and media.
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I do so, because it has a direct bearing on the decay of the spirit of constitutionalism both in America and elsewhere.
Man has danced upon the verge of a social abyss, and, as previously suggested, the dancing has, both in form and in accompanying music, lost its former grace and reverted to the primitive forms of crude vulgarity.
The spirit of man had a new birth and was breaking away from the too rigid bonds of ancient custom and authority.
My principal purpose in these lectures is to deepen the interest of this great nation in one of the very greatest and far-reaching achievements of our common race.
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