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Late in the Joseph Stalin era, a physics teacher, Dimitri Lopatkin, invents a machine that revolutionizes the centrifugal casting of pipes, then a difficult and time-consuming operation. A loyal communist, he believes his invention will help the Soviet economy, but it is rejected by bureaucrats. Lopatkin begins to work on his machine for the military, but he is soon arrested and accused of passing secrets to his lover, Nadia Drozdova, the estranged wife of one of the officials who opposes him. From "Love and Progress in Soviet Russia: A Stalin Era Story of Misplaced Loyalties" by Vladimir Dudintsev, now available on Kindle Vella.
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Excerpt from “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent” by John Erskine. If a wise man should ask. What are the modern virtues? and should answer his own question by a summary of the things we admire; if he should discard as irrelevant the ideals which by tradition we profess, but which are not found outside of the tradition or the profession — ideals like meekness, humility, the renunciation of this world; if he should include only those excellences to which our hearts are daily given, and by which our conduct is motived, — in such an inventory what virtues would he name? This question is neither original nor very new. Our times await the reckoning up of our spiritual goods which is here suggested. We have at least this wisdom, that many of us are curious to know just what our virtues are. I wish I could offer myself as the wise man who brings the answer. But I raise this question merely to ask another — When the wise man brings his list of our genuine admirations, will intelligence be one of them? We might seem to be well within the old ideal of modesty if we claimed the virtue of intelligence. But before we claim the virtue, are we convinced that it is a virtue, not a peril? Buy the book to keep reading: ebooklingo.com/book/2112/the-moral-obligation-...
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