Gold Lame Speedo and the Basic Writings of Josiah Royce

That's pronounced "lam-ay", not "lame".  But either pronunciation would
apply I guess, if it's your intent to convey the inner meaning, I mean.

I will probably not grace you with the sight of me in my speedo, but I will
inflict my volume of Royce upon you.  I feel especially inspired this morn
by my dialogue with Ham and Marsha's posted poem.  Both made a deep imprint
upon two different aspects of my thought.  Little moments of grace,
inflicted by others when you need them the most- that's what community is
all about.


"When I review this whole process, I strongly feel that my deepest motives
and problems have centered about the idea of the Community, although this
idea has only come gradually to my clear consciousness.  This was what I was
intensely feeling, in the days when my sisters and I looked across the
Sacramento Valley, and wondered about the great world beyond our mountains.
This was what I failed to understand when my mates taught me those
instructive lessons in San Francisco.  This was that which i tried to
understand when I went to Germany.  I have been unpractical,-- always
socially ineffective as regards genuine "team play," ignorant of politics,
an ineffective member of committees, and a poor helper of concrete social
enterprises.  Meanwhile I have always been, as in my childhood, a good deal
of a nonconformist, and disposed to a certain rebellion.  So much of the
spirit that opposes the community I have and have always had in me, simply,
elementally, deeply.

Over against this natural ineffectiveness in serving the community, and over
against this rebellion, there has always stood the interest which has taught
me what I nowadays try to express by teaching that we are saved through the
community."

Professor Royce,

Walton Hotel, Philadelphia
December 29, 1915
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