If it is, then the sooner they give up the pretence of playing with public affairs and return to private life the better. If they cannot make a job o… - C. E. M. Joad

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If it is, then the sooner they give up the pretence of playing with public affairs and return to private life the better. If they cannot make a job of the House of Commons, let them at least make something of their own houses. If they cannot learn to save men from the destruction which incurable male mischievousness bids fair to bring upon them, let women at least learn to feed them, before they destroy themselves.

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About C. E. M. Joad

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (12 August 1891 – 9 April 1953) was an English philosopher and broadcasting personality. During the 1940s, he was a participant in The Brains Trust, a BBC Radio discussion programme. He popularised philosophy and became a celebrity, before his downfall in a scandal over an unpaid train fare in 1948.

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وباختصار نتبين أن اهتمامنا بالأشياء متناسب مع معرفتنا إلى درجة كبيرة وكذلك حبنا للأشياء أن من الحجج الكثيرة التي تدعو لقراءة الآداب العظيمة لأنه بتوسيع مجالنا وتعمق فهمنا للعالم يمكننا أن نلمس فيه جمالا أكبر، ونشعر بهوى أعمق ويتسع أفق مشاركتنا الوجدانية وإحساسنا بالحياة عن قبل، وهكذا يجعل الأدب الحياة أكثر لذة، ويجب أن نثقف عقولنا بهمة لأنه كلما كنا أكثر ذكاء كلما ازدادت لذتنا في هذا العالم الذي نحيا فيه. يجب علينا أن ننمي أسمى العناصر في شخصيتنا فيها عن طريقها فقط نستطيع أن نفهم ونقدر الأشياء القيمة، الأشياء التي أطلقنا عليها بأنها خيرة في حد ذاتها

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