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right of the bull's-eye, self- deprecation is to the left.
He is never surprised at anything. You get the picture of
this guy. He evidences not warmth, no concern for his fellow
man. He’s a cold, noble, bright guy. That’s the epitome
of military virtue in Aristotle’s mind. The image to me
is more of a MacArthur than a Bradley. That’s his view.

Going on with this courage, this idea, and we’ll talk
more about it in the seminar I hope, but think of the mile-
posts that have been set by various writers and thinkers.
Courage, says Aristotle, is how a man handles fear. He would
say that if man is not afraid and he did something good,
audacious, that’s good, but it’s not courage. He would have
had to have fear to have it called courage. On the other hand,
Conrad whose book The Typhoon we read this time, in another
book called Lord Jim makes the point that he may have made
in this one but I can’t put my finger on it, that the mother
of fear, and fear is the debilitating thing to some extent
although not always, is imagination. I had that pointed out
to me one time. I was at Stanford as a graduate student and
old Doc Thomas Bailey, who I saw in December. He’s in his
80's and he’s ailing but he’s still bright. He wrote a lot
of good books and he’s the dean of American diplomatic
historians. His method of history writing is to go to the
library and read the papers of the time. If he’s going to
write about the War of 1812 he finds the New York and Philadelphia
papers and tries to write it with the view of what the man

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