I wish to thank the author of your article The Decline of the English Department. Yes, humanities is a core trait of ... humans. Without a sensibility for expression of nature, how can a human being be...sensible?
Obsessed with money, politics and, "stuff" (material assets), what room is there still in one's mind to consider the immaterial principles that make human life worthwhile and substantive? The money in one's account and the goods that money can furnish are, indeed, a means to an end—the end being fulfillment.
So who still remembers what fulfillment means? Genuine expressions of human nature and life, such as exist in "Great Books" reflect such fulfillment and the genuine human experience within which it exists.
Ben Grinberg
Eden Prairie, MN, USA
