Letters After the Name

“Scholarship of all kinds — scientific, historical, grammatical, philosophical — partakes fully in the tendency of the human race to veer into sin and folly. Some of the dumbest ideas ever to afflict us have been embraced first in the academy and abandoned there last. Two examples should suffice — Marxism and evolution. Marxists think it can cost a dollar to make a loaf of bread, and that they can make people sell it for fifty cents, and then still have bread. There are people in our university system who still think that. And evolutionists think that the Canadian moose and the bright yellow canary are blood cousins. Where are you most likely to find people who will defend such things? The answer is someplace where people have letters after their names” (Black and Tan, p. 10).