Teachers … preach “the superiority of the intelligence”; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the action… - Julien Benda

Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him to do so in the name of his practical attributes. Formerly man was divine because he had been able to acquire the concept of justice, the idea of law, the sense of God; today he is divine because he has been able to create equipment which makes him the master of matter.

That teaching according to which intellectual activity is worthy of esteem to the extent that it is practical and to that extent alone.

The desire to abase the values of knowledge before the values of action...