Victor Davis Hanson Quotes
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.
Hanson, Victor Davis. The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer. Free Press, 2000.
He was referring to Erich Hermann Wilhelm V̦gelin; [January 3, 1901 РJanuary 19, 1985) was political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna, at which he became an associate professor of political science at the Faculty of Law. In 1938 he and his wife fled from the Nazi forces which had entered Vienna, and emigrated to the United States, where they became citizens in 1944. He spent most of his academic career at the University of Notre Dame, Louisiana State University, the University of Munich and the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He was a very elitist intellectual who was a favorite of Conservatives. A number of his accomplished students, however were very egalitarian and were active liberals and populists. America is one of the few countries and cultures in the world where political, religious and philosophical views do not get passed from one generation to the next by family and teachers. America's freedom has been not only legal freedom but has stimulated cultural freedom as well, sometimes to the distress of older generations who want their values and ideas preserved and transmitted through the c=generations.
Hammond’s rhetorical tactic was to then argue that it was better to have Blacks be the lower class than whites—hence slavery was a logical conclusion.
Victor Davis Hanson is an American conservative commentator, classicist, and military historian. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Washington Times, and other media outlets.
