In England we have to struggle not only against ignorance, but against a deep-rooted intellectual insincerity, which is our worst national fault.

This curiously sincere intellectual insincerity was due to the fact that the Seventh Men were chiefly concerned with matters other than abstract thought.

The function of the critic hereafter will consist in part of carrying on an incessant and relentless warfare on the prevailing American intellectual insincerity.