Excerpt from The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: And Other Essays This question is neither original nor very new. Our times await the reckon ing up of our spiritual goods which is here suggested. We have at least this wisdom, that many of us are curious to know just what our Virtues are. I wish I could Ofier myself as the wise man who brings the answer. But I raise this question merely to ask another - When the wise man brings his list Of our genuine admirations, will intelligence be one of them? We might seem to be well within the Old ideal of modesty if we claimed the virtue of intelligence. But before we claim the Virtue, are we convinced that it is a vir tue, not a peril? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.