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Our so-called intelligentsia, who played with political red fire until they painfully felt its destructiveness on their own persons, played at the same time with intellectual disdain for those who "escaped" from the world into ivory-towers of spiritual seeking. The second world war, however, began the process of making them feel the barrenness of their own fields and the stark coldness of their own outlooks. So quite a number of them have begun to peep into the ivory-towers and to find out what goes on there. The resultant discoveries are opening their eyes.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 2 : Its Choice > # 230