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By Julien Benda
<p>Julien Benda’s vintage examine of Twenties Europe resonates this present day. The “treason of the intellectuals” is a word that conjures up a lot yet is inherently ambiguous. The booklet bearing this identify is widely known yet little understood. This variation is brought by means of Roger Kimball.</p>
<p>From the time of the pre-Socratics, intellectuals have been a breed aside. They have been non-materialistic knowledge-seekers who believed in a common humanism and represented a cornerstone of civilized society. in keeping with Benda, this all started to switch within the early 20th century. In Europe within the Twenties, intellectuals begun forsaking their attachment to conventional philosophical and scholarly beliefs, and as an alternative glorified particularisms and ethical relativism.</p>
<p>The “treason” of which Benda writes is the betrayal by way of the intellectuals in their designated vocation. He criticizes eu intellectuals for permitting political dedication to insinuate itself into their figuring out of the highbrow vocation, ushering the area into “the age of the highbrow association of political hatreds.” From the savage flowering of ethnic and non secular hatreds within the heart East and all through Europe at the present time to the mendacious call for for political correctness and multiculturalism on university campuses all over the West, the treason of the intellectuals maintains to play out its unedifying drama.</p>
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In all probability, much smaller steel castings were made before the bells were cast, because it is difficult to believe that such large castings would be attempted without considerable previous experience. The steel church bell castings were displayed at various expositions throughout Europe and created quite a sensation because of their fine, clear tones and the fact that their selling price was about half that of the bronze bells formerly in general use. In a park outside of Bochum, one of the early steel church bells is enshrined as a marker of steel casting history.
The full possibilities of iron became far better understood during this century, and gray iron was found to be the most versatile and diverse of all cast metals. As a result, the use of iron for castings was vastly increased, even though malleable iron, chilled iron, and finely cast steel were also tremendously advanced during this period. The world was approaching the highly mechanized state in which we now find it, and the iron family and its older nonferrous relatives were destined to play vital roles in that mechanization.
Merchant pig iron producers, relieved of the duties of casting metals, went on the achieve the highly specialized skill that today is theirs. Foundrymen, on the other hand, provided with a ready and reliable supply of scrap of pig iron, were able to control with greater certainty many of the variables that had proved uncontrollable. In 1850, another important improvement was made in the cupola--the drop bottom--without which not efficient cupola could operate today. This innovation, so familiar to modern iron foundrymen, seems to have marked the beginning of modern cupola design; further developments occurred in rapid succession (see the article "Melting Furnaces: Cupolas" in this Volume).