Journal article
Merit?
Salmagundi (Saratoga Springs), Vol.212/213, pp.60-62
10/01/2021
Abstract
If the argument can be made that we are often not governed well, or that there is little wisdom reflected in the choices of the institutions and industries that are even mightier determinants of the health of the society than the government, then the elite-university-educated population and their cohort may be a ruling class, but they are by no means a meritocracy. The stratum of society Doudiat blames are surely not a large enough part of die population for their absence to result in the significant and recent drop indicated in the statistics he offers, granting forpurposes of argument diat they are as thoroughly secularized as he assumes. Jesus says, In Matthew 6:1-18, "Beware of practicing your piety before men, in order to be seen by diem, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven," and much more to the same effect.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Merit?
- Creators
- Marilynne Robinson
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Salmagundi (Saratoga Springs), Vol.212/213, pp.60-62
- ISSN
- 0036-3529
- eISSN
- 2330-0876
- Publisher
- Skidmore College
- Number of pages
- 135
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Writers’ Workshop
- Record Identifier
- 9985016023602771
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