Note 59 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal

This the Church has understood so well, and the corollary to this truth: That love between men can only be created by developing in them the sensibility for abstract man, and by combatting in them the interest for concrete man; by turning them towards metaphysical meditation and away from the study of history (see Malebranche). This is exactly the contrary direction to that of the modern ‘clerks’ but, once again, these ‘clerks’ have not the slightest desire to create love among men.