“I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in one's thinking by a teacher, or a faculty, or a book; but the accent these days is so strong on atomistic intellectual independence that to suggest such a thing is, as I have noted, highly inflammatory.” ThinkingInspirationalBookInfluenceIndependentThought Book:Up from Liberalism Source: Up from Liberalism