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Scope and Contents "'Admiration', I have almost always found, as a term falling between identification and characterization, an embarassment to myself when I use it, or think of using it, of or to another - for there has got to be full-moon feeling, or the term is a misnomer, I have almost never encountered it in use except as carrying implicitly reservations, emotional usage."...."As to public interest in my thought, my writings, earlier and later; there is a general literary despite -...

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"I received the transcript back of "Triviality", and thank you very much for your corrections and editions. It is a graceful and sensitive and perceptive piece, and its forward-look is one that I find most pleasing."

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"-as to what M.K. has done in the article, he has pressed doggedly forward along particular lines in a right direction."

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"As to the Triviality piece, the concluding implication: I am a good deal misunderstood, in my use of the word 'human', being taken for a 'humanist'..."