Intellect?is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of mind. Whereas intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, adjust, intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes, imagines. Intelligence will seize the immediate meaning in a situation and evaluate it. Intellect evaluates evaluations, and looks for the meanings of situations as a whole.

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[I]ntelligence is an excellence of mind that is employed within a fairly narrow, immediate, and predictable range; it is a manipulative, adjustive, unfailingly practical quality.

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[T]here is something about intellect, as opposed to professionally trained intelligence, which does not adhere to whole vocations but only to persons.

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[I]t is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the west in modern times that, of all classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale. Behind the intellectual’s feeling of commitment is the belief that in some measure the world should be made responsive to his capacity for rationality, his passion for justice and order: out of this conviction arises much of his value to mankind and equally much of his ability to do mischief.

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