In our secular age, the liberal arts represent the last, best hope of ennobling democracy, of liberating us from absorption in the present, of raising our gaze above ourselves, without which we risk sinking below the level of the beasts. – See more at: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2014/04/the_liberal_arts_are_in_troubl.html#sthash.rFj4bUsa.dpuf