The Varieties of Religio-Critical Experience

unity of culture." Of his learned colleaguesnin the arts, he therefore demandsnthat "talk and thought about art... conformnto the canons of common sense"nand that criticism be "written for thenlayman; an educated layman if possible,nbut a layman and not a professor." Andnin his own work, Barzun convincinglyndemonstrates that such . . .