The first line of Wendell Berry’s, "A Matter of Necessity," ventures forward with the adamant need to rescue ourselves. This encourages the reader to go on if only to disagree. Found in this work is the collective concern for an unspecified group or class. Berry writes from the vision of “we” instead of “I” or “me”. He is clear, concise, and deliberate in terms of content and style. However, his thesis remains generalized, assuming, and unsupported by concrete evidence or literal examples. “We need at the very least a speakable inventory of the things particularly belonging to our own places and lives that are worth saving.” (Berry) Berry’s literary voice shines throughout, however, only one real-world example is provided to support his thesis. This example yearns for the specificity and clarity needed to effectively support a claim. “They have generated an epidemic of specialized or professional languages that are ugly, intentionally obscure, pretentious, and incapable of particularity, affection, humility, or wonder. These languages are readily usable for commercial and political lies, and are sometimes taught at public expense for that purpose.” (Berry) Why is his opinion important? How have these changes impacted society and education? Why is human life valuable? How is the artistic temperament linked to this value? He leaves unanswered a great number of the traditional journalistic questions, and relies heavily on the words of other great men. "For the universities have by principle deracinated the arts and the sciences in the service of what Ivan Illich called ‘universal education’I have in mind not only their succumbing to ‘the intellectual temptation of substituting vocabulary for thought,’ to borrow a useful diagnosis from John Lukacs, but also their orientation of thought to the capabilities of technology, from machines to chemicals to genetic engineering, rather than to the nature of ecologica