ABSTRACT
George Grant's uneasiness is shared, to say the least, by political science. Grant, who agrees with Simone Weil, but has been influenced almost as much by Leo Strauss, is uneasy about speaking of the supernatural in public. The relation of necessity to the Good is that "necessity in so far as it is absolutely other than Good is Good itself". This Good can be approached by the intellect but experienced only in refraction through a love that is directed toward the beauty of the world. The spirit of truth can dwell in science on condition that the motive prompting the savant is the love of the object that forms the stuff of his investigations. The most striking thing about this God is its absence from the world. God's absence is for humans the condition of their being. In The Need for Roots, Weil makes some suggestions for changing the system concerning "concentration of attention" at the workplace.
