CONTENTS The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent, The Call to Service, The Mind of Shakespeare, Magic and Wonder in Literature In different ways the four essays set forth one theme - the moral use to which intelligence might be put, in rendering our admirations and our loyalties at once more sensible and more noble. At the time of original publication in 1915, John Erskine, Ph. D., was Associate Professor of English at Columbia University. | The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and Other Essays by John Erskine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters