The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays. By Wendell Berry. Shoemaker & Hoard, 208 pp., $24.00.

While covering agrarian themes familiar to Berry readers, these essays also touch on issues of national interest: weapons of mass destruction, John Kerry's presidential platform, national security and individual rights. Especially helpful are "Quantity vs. Form," on the value of "a lived life" versus "a long life," and Berry's ruminations on the varieties of human ignorance (the title essay). Also of note is "The Working Wilderness," an essay by Courtney White that makes a plea for a new wilderness land ethic. The book includes "The Burden of the Gospels," which was excerpted in the CENTURY.

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