Abstract

Meynell, a Lecturer at Leeds and the author of a study of Bernard Lonergan, is, generally speaking, a temperate, moderating sort of writer--at almost opposite extremes from a polemicist such as Lenin. Typically, Meynell has something positive to say even about the latter, as for instance in the paragraph which begins with the following sentence: "Lenin had a way of referring to intellectuals as 'insects', and then as now, I am sure, they often richly deserved the epithet." But then the author goes on to say that intellectuals, when they are doing their job, must interfere with self-righteous leaders.