Part One

Reframing the Higher Education Crisis

Times of terror and deepest misery may be in the offing. But if any happiness at all is to be extracted from that misery, it can only be a spiritual happiness, looking backward toward conservation of the culture of earlier times, looking forward toward serene and stalwart defense of the things of the spirit in an age which otherwise might succumb wholly to material things.1

Reverend Father Jacobus

The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse