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Group: Ralph Adams Cram And Albert Jay Nock

Ralph Adams Cram, who created many great cathedrals was greatly admired by Albert Jay Nock who said: This from a man who created beautiful Cathedrals. And Alberty Jay Nock agreed with him on this point. And this site makes the point well. Since then I have found myself quite unable either to hate anybody or lose patience with anybody…One can hate human beings, at least I could, - I hated a lot of them when that is what I thought they were, - but one can’t hate sub-human creatures or be contemptuous of them, wish them ill, regard them unkindly…If cattle tramp down your garden, you drive them away but can’t hate them, because you know they are acting up to the measure of their psychical capacity. My acceptance of Mr. Cram’s theory also caused me for the first time to really like people-at-large…when one gets it fixed firmly fixed in one’s head that they are living up to the measure of their capacities to the point of making themselves as human beings, one comes at once to like them. One has great affection of one’s dogs, even when one sees them reveling in tastes and smells which to us are unspeakably odious. That is the way dogs are, one does not try to chance their peculiar penchant… Crams essay follows.