Introduction to a review of two books in
The American Interest , June 17, 2014:
“A believer and an atheist seek out their antitheses.
Do they meet somewhere in the middle,
or pass in the murk of half-baked pseudo-syntheses?”
“Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,
We shall come rejoicing, passing in the murk.”
Related material:
This morning’s passage by Friedrich Gundolf.
For some backstory, see Gundolf in
Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle ,
by Robert E. Norton, Cornell University Press, 2002.