Part III, Section V, Values, Europe or the Setting, Sophists, Kulchur: Part One, Kulchur Part Two, March 12th, Textbooks Summary and Analysis

In "Values", Pound aims to show that table of values among the men he has seen and talked with. He claims that Mussolini was a great man. Pound thinks of being genuine as swiftness in a given field and has seen many honest, patient men applying their words. However, there are volcanic and disordered minds like Wyndham Lewis's that are of great value especially in a rotted milieu. He does well in England, consequently.

"Europe or The Setting" opens with a discussion of some European writings. Pound argues that real knowledge does not jump from the page into the mind; instead, the process is much...