I might add (perhaps this will clarify some things) that in the very next paragraph he points out (and I alluded to this earlier) that there are significant differences between Salantarian/Blazzerian Mussar and Slabodka Mussar. He writes: “In all truth and fairness it should be emphasized that when the Musar movement reached a state of maturity in the Yeshiva Knesset Israel under the directorship of R. Nathan Zvi Finkel and in the Mir Yeshiva under the spiritual guidance of R. Yeruham Levovitz, it assumed an entirely different form and approached the world perspective of the great halakhic men. The fear, the terror, the melancholy evaporated, and their place was taken by a powerful sense of the holiness and joy of life. The act of cognition in accordance with the Halakha, new, original halakhic insights, spiritual creation, all replaced that exaggerated sensitivity and impressionability and that despairing perspective that had at first taken hold of the world of the Musar movement.” [Emphasis added]
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